JB Ackman, MC Crair - Current opinion in neurobiology, 2014 - Elsevier
Highlights•Retinal waves drive visual circuits before the onset of visual experience.•Map development in the midbrain, thalamus and cortex is regulated by retinal …
At early stages of development, neuronal cultures in vitro spontaneously reach a coherent state of collective firing in a pattern of nearly periodic global bursts. Although understanding …
The activity-dependent rules that govern the wiring of GABAergic interneurons are not well understood. Chandelier cells (ChCs) are a type of GABAergic interneuron that control …
D Kerschensteiner, W Guido - Visual neuroscience, 2017 - cambridge.org
The dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus (dLGN) of the thalamus is the principal conduit for visual information from retina to visual cortex. Viewed initially as a simple relay, recent …
Retinal circuits detect salient features of the visual world and report them to the brain through spike trains of retinal ganglion cells. The most abundant ganglion cell type in mice …
Highlights•Synaptic activity drives the formation of specific synapses in the retina.• Neurotransmitter induces the formation of spines in developing cortical neurons.•Axons are …
Retinal waves are bursts of correlated activity that occur prior to eye opening and provide a critical source of activity that drives the refinement of retinofugal projections. Retinal waves …
W Young - Cell transplantation, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
In recent years, several investigators have successfully regenerated axons in animal spinal cords without locomotor recovery. One explanation is that the animals were not trained to …
In the past, the spontaneous release of neurotransmitter from presynaptic terminals has been thought of as a side effect of evoked release, with little functional significance. As our …