Carleton, Maya and Oesch, Nicholas W. (2022) Differences in the spatial fidelity of evoked and spontaneous signals in the degenerating retina. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 16. ISSN 1662-5102
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Abstract
Vision restoration strategies aim to reestablish vision by replacing the function of lost photoreceptors with optoelectronic hardware or through gene therapy. One complication to these approaches is that retinal circuitry undergoes remodeling after photoreceptor loss. Circuit remodeling following perturbation is ubiquitous in the nervous system and understanding these changes is crucial for treating neurodegeneration. Spontaneous oscillations that arise during retinal degeneration have been well-studied, however, other changes in the spatiotemporal processing of evoked and spontaneous activity have received less attention. Here we use subretinal electrical stimulation to measure the spatial and temporal spread of both spontaneous and evoked activity during retinal degeneration. We found that electrical stimulation synchronizes spontaneous oscillatory activity, over space and through time, thus leading to increased correlations in ganglion cell activity. Intriguingly, we found that spatial selectivity was maintained in rd10 retina for evoked responses, with spatial receptive fields comparable to wt retina. These findings indicate that different biophysical mechanisms are involved in mediating feed forward excitation, and the lateral spread of spontaneous activity in the rd10 retina, lending support toward the possibility of high-resolution vision restoration.
Item Type: | Article |
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Subjects: | Science Global Plos > Medical Science |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email support@science.globalplos.com |
Date Deposited: | 23 Mar 2023 09:51 |
Last Modified: | 01 Jan 2024 12:51 |
URI: | http://ebooks.manu2sent.com/id/eprint/390 |