Diversity of intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells: circuits and functions

ML Aranda, TM Schmidt - Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 2021 - Springer
The melanopsin-expressing, intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (ipRGCs) are
a relatively recently discovered class of atypical ganglion cell photoreceptor. These ipRGCs …

Melanopsin and the intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells: biophysics to behavior

MTH Do - Neuron, 2019 - cell.com
The mammalian visual system encodes information over a remarkable breadth of
spatiotemporal scales and light intensities. This performance originates with its complement …

Circadian photoentrainment in mice and humans

RG Foster, S Hughes, SN Peirson - Biology, 2020 - mdpi.com
Light around twilight provides the primary entrainment signal for circadian rhythms. Here we
review the mechanisms and responses of the mouse and human circadian systems to light …

[HTML][HTML] Diverse cell types, circuits, and mechanisms for color vision in the vertebrate retina

WB Thoreson, DM Dacey - Physiological reviews, 2019 - journals.physiology.org
Synaptic interactions to extract information about wavelength, and thus color, begin in the
vertebrate retina with three classes of light-sensitive cells: rod photoreceptors at low light …

The M5 cell: a color-opponent intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cell

ME Stabio, S Sabbah, LE Quattrochi, MC Ilardi… - Neuron, 2018 - cell.com
Intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (ipRGCs) combine direct photosensitivity
through melanopsin with synaptically mediated drive from classical photoreceptors through …

M1 ipRGCs influence visual function through retrograde signaling in the retina

CL Prigge, PT Yeh, NF Liou, CC Lee… - Journal of …, 2016 - Soc Neuroscience
Melanopsin-expressing intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (ipRGCs, with five
subtypes named M1–M5) are a unique subclass of RGCs with axons that project directly to …

Divergent outer retinal circuits drive image and non-image visual behaviors

C Beier, U Bocchero, L Levy, Z Zhang, N Jin… - Cell reports, 2022 - cell.com
Image-and non-image-forming vision are essential for animal behavior. Here we use
genetically modified mouse lines to examine retinal circuits driving image-and non-image …

Crosstalk: The diversity of melanopsin ganglion cell types has begun to challenge the canonical divide between image‐forming and non‐image‐forming vision

KB Sondereker, ME Stabio… - Journal of Comparative …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Melanopsin ganglion cells have defied convention since their discovery almost 20 years
ago. In the years following, many types of these intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion …

A quantitative analysis of the contribution of melanopsin to brightness perception

M Yamakawa, S Tsujimura, K Okajima - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
In the retina, intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (ipRGCs) which express
photopigment melanopsin have been identified as photoreceptors which differ from cones …

Organization of the dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus in the mouse

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 …