Fireworks in the Primate Retina

Neurotechnique Fireworks in the Primate Retina: In Vitro Photodynamics Reveals Diverse LGN-Projecting Ganglion Cell Types

these populations for any useful analysis of structure and function? The great majority of neurons have remained , in fact, technically inaccessible to detailed study or in many cases to any study at all. For example, the output neurons of the retina, the ganglion cells, comprise an estimated 20 anatomically and physiologically 2 Department of Physiological Optics unique populations giving rise...

Fireworks in the Primate Retina In Vitro Photodynamics Reveals Diverse LGN-Projecting Ganglion Cell Types

Diverse cell types and parallel pathways are characteristic of the vertebrate nervous system, yet it remains a challenge to define the basic components of most neural structures. We describe a process termed retrograde photodynamics that allowed us to rapidly make the link between morphology, physiology, and connectivity for ganglion cells in the macaque retina that project to the lateral genic...

Neural Organization in the Primate Retina

Amino acid signatures in the primate retina.

Pattern recognition of amino acid signals partitions virtually all of the macaque retina into 16 separable biochemical theme classes, some further divisible by additional criteria. The photoreceptor-->bipolar cell-->ganglion cell pathway is composed of six separable theme classes, each possessing a characteristic glutamate signature. Neuronal aspartate and glutamine levels are always positively...

Receptive field structure in the primate retina

This review summarizes recent work relevant to receptive field structure of cells of the parvocellular (PC) and (MC) magnocellular pathways in the primate. In the PC-pathway, recent data suggest that different color- and cone-opponent ganglion cells make up specific anatomical classes with specific cone connectivities and bipolar cell input. For example, blue-on ganglion cells have been identif...