However, Zhu's team recently discovered a new subtype of interneurons called amacrine cells that carries an "off" signal even when situated in the "on" half. "The 'on' and 'off' division is ...

Studying the neural circuit, Tahnbee Kim, a graduate student in Kerschensteiner’s lab, identified a specific type of cell called an amacrine cell that’s key to detecting motion. Amacrine cells ...

More information: Akihiro Matsumoto et al, Functionally distinct GABAergic amacrine cell types regulate spatiotemporal encoding in the mouse retina, Nature Neuroscience (2025). DOI: 10.1038 ...

Second, risk genes for schizophrenia were associated with a specific class of retinal neurons, the amacrine cells. They are involved in synaptic function, and determine the ability of neurons to ...

Light-Seq enabled the isolation of the full transcriptome of a very rare type of cell, known as “dopaminergic amacrine cell” (DAC, magenta), by retrieving merely four to eight individually ...