Receptive Field Sizes of Nyxnob Mouse Retinal Ganglion Cells

Maj-Britt Hölzel; Marcus H C Howlett; Maarten Kamermans

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Receptive Field Sizes of Nyxnob Mouse Retinal Ganglion Cells

Maj-Britt Hölzel, Marcus H C Howlett, Maarten Kamermans

Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN)

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Patients with congenital nystagmus, involuntary eye movements, often have a reduced visual acuity. Some of these patients have a retinal-specific mutation in the protein nyctalopin, which is also present in the Nyxnob mouse. In these mice, retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) have oscillatory activity, which leads to expanded axonal projections towards the dLGN and consequently to a desegregation of retinal projections to the brain. In this study, we investigate whether the receptive fields of Nyxnob RGCs have also expanded by measuring the size of their receptive fields using MEA recordings. Contrary to our expectation, relative to wild-type (WT) mice we found receptive field sizes in the Nyxnob retina had not increased but instead had decreased for green-light preferring RGCs. Additionally, we also found the receptive fields of UV-light preferring RGCs are larger than green-light preferring RGCs in both WT and Nyxnob mice.

Original language	English
Article number	3202
Journal	International Journal of Molecular Sciences
Volume	23
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms23063202
Publication status	Published - 16 Mar 2022

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