Publication Date:
2016-01-07
Description:
In the vertebrate visual system, all output of the retina is carried by retinal ganglion cells. Each type encodes distinct visual features in parallel for transmission to the brain. How many such 'output channels' exist and what each encodes are areas of intense debate. In the mouse, anatomical estimates range from 15 to 20 channels, and only a handful are functionally understood. By combining two-photon calcium imaging to obtain dense retinal recordings and unsupervised clustering of the resulting sample of more than 11,000 cells, here we show that the mouse retina harbours substantially more than 30 functional output channels. These include all known and several new ganglion cell types, as verified by genetic and anatomical criteria. Therefore, information channels from the mouse eye to the mouse brain are considerably more diverse than shown thus far by anatomical studies, suggesting an encoding strategy resembling that used in state-of-the-art artificial vision systems.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4724341/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉 〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4724341/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Baden, Tom -- Berens, Philipp -- Franke, Katrin -- Roman Roson, Miroslav -- Bethge, Matthias -- Euler, Thomas -- U01 NS090562/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- U01NS090562/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2016 Jan 21;529(7586):345-50. doi: 10.1038/nature16468. Epub 2016 Jan 6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Bernstein Centre for Computational Neuroscience, 72076 Tubingen, Germany. ; Centre for Integrative Neuroscience, University of Tubingen, 72076 Tubingen, Germany. ; Institute for Ophthalmic Research, 72076 Tubingen, Germany. ; Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA. ; Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Tubingen, 72076 Tubingen, Germany. ; Graduate Training Centre of Neuroscience, University of Tubingen, 72074 Tubingen, Germany. ; Max Planck Institute of Biological Cybernetics, 72076 Tubingen, Germany.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26735013" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Print ISSN:
0028-0836
Electronic ISSN:
1476-4687
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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