Greene Matthew J, Kim Jinseop S, Seung H Sebastian
Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.
Cell Rep. 2016 Mar 1;14(8):1892-900. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2016.02.001. Epub 2016 Feb 18.
Visual motion information is computed by parallel On and Off pathways in the retina, which lead to On and Off types of starburst amacrine cells (SACs). The approximate mirror symmetry between this pair of cell types suggests that On and Off pathways might compute motion using analogous mechanisms. To test this idea, we reconstructed On SACs and On bipolar cells (BCs) from serial electron microscopic images of a mouse retina. We defined a new On BC type in the course of classifying On BCs. Through quantitative contact analysis, we found evidence that sustained and transient On BC types are wired to On SAC dendrites at different distances from the SAC soma, mirroring our previous wiring diagram for the Off BC-SAC circuit. Our finding is consistent with the hypothesis that On and Off pathways contain parallel correlation-type motion detectors.
视觉运动信息由视网膜中的并行开通路和关通路计算得出,这两条通路分别通向开型和关型的星爆无长突细胞(SAC)。这两种细胞类型之间近似的镜像对称表明,开通路和关通路可能使用类似的机制来计算运动。为了验证这一想法,我们从小鼠视网膜的连续电子显微镜图像中重建了开型SAC和开型双极细胞(BC)。在对开型BC进行分类的过程中,我们定义了一种新的开型BC类型。通过定量接触分析,我们发现有证据表明,持续型和瞬变型开型BC类型与开型SAC树突在距SAC胞体不同距离处相连,这与我们之前关于关型BC-SAC回路的接线图相呼应。我们的发现与开通路和关通路包含并行相关型运动探测器的假设一致。