In the mammalian retina, the ∼30 subtypes of inhibitory interneurons called amacrine cells (ACs) are generally divided into two groups: wide/medium-field GABAergic ACs and narrow-field ...

The project to trace retinal neurons known as starburst amacrine cells was particularly challenging. "We weren't sure it would work, because starburst cells are extremely tricky to map," Robinson ...

"The 'on' and 'off' division is considered to be the fundamental organizing plan of the retina; however, our study has discovered an exception to this organization plan," Zhu said. Amacrine cells ...

"This was puzzling," Reh said, "because in chicks amacrine cells are the primary retinal cells that are regenerated after injury." To resolve the discrepancy between what was detected in chicks ...

"This was puzzling, because in chicks amacrine cells are the primary retinal cells that are regenerated after injury," Reh said. With a view to resolving the discrepancy between what was detected ...

Retinal amacrine cells are thought to lack chromatic or color-selective light responses and have only a minor role in color processing. We found that a type of mammalian (Ictidomys ...

overproduction of VEGF and dangerous blood vessel overgrowth typical of many eye diseases. Finally, they used a technique called genetic ablation to kill the amacrine cells and horizontal 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 ...

Findings revealed that the polygenic risk of schizophrenia was concentrated in genes with specific expression in amacrine cells from both the fovea and peripheral retina. The novel insights ...

However, a team of scientists at China’s Fudan University has recently built prototype retinal implants that can replace the ...

Light-Seq enabled the isolation of the full transcriptome of a very rare type of cell, known as “dopaminergic amacrine cell ... to other cells in the retina that were differently barcoded ...

The retina is the layer of cells positioned at the back of your eyeball. This layer senses the light that comes into your eyeball and sends signals to your brain. The key retina parts include the ...