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Inhibitory Control of Feature Selectivity in an Object Motion Sensitive Circuit of the Retina.

Cell reports | 2017

Object motion sensitive (OMS) W3-retinal ganglion cells (W3-RGCs) in mice respond to local movements in a visual scene but remain silent during self-generated global image motion. The excitatory inputs that drive responses of W3-RGCs to local motion were recently characterized, but which inhibitory neurons suppress W3-RGCs' responses to global motion, how these neurons encode motion information, and how their connections are organized along the excitatory circuit axis remains unknown. Here, we find that a genetically identified amacrine cell (AC) type, TH2-AC, exhibits fast responses to global motion and slow responses to local motion. Optogenetic stimulation shows that TH2-ACs provide strong GABAA receptor-mediated input to W3-RGCs but only weak input to upstream excitatory neurons. Cell-type-specific silencing reveals that temporally coded inhibition from TH2-ACs cancels W3-RGC spike responses to global but not local motion stimuli and, thus, controls the feature selectivity of OMS signals sent to the brain.

Pubmed ID: 28514655 RIS Download

Associated grants

  • Agency: NEI NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R01 EY023341
  • Agency: NEI NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R01 EY026978
  • Agency: NEI NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R01 EY027411

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