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Melanopsin and the Intrinsically Photosensitive Retinal Ganglion Cells: Biophysics to Behavior

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Do, Michael Tri H.·2019·Neuron

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SUMMARY The mammalian visual system encodes information over a remarkable breadth of spatiotemporal scales and light intensities. This performance originates with its complement of photoreceptors: the classic rods and cones, as well as the intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (ipRGCs). IpRGCs capture light with a G protein-coupled receptor called melanopsin, depolarize like photoreceptors of invertebrates such as Drosophila, discharge electrical spikes, and innervate dozens of brain areas to influence physiology, behavior, perception, and mood. Several visual responses rely on melanopsin to be sustained and maximal, and require ipRGCs to occur at all. IpRGCs fulfill their roles using mechanisms that include an unusual conformation of the melanopsin protein, an extraordinarily slow phototransduction cascade, divisions of labor even among cells of a morphological type, and unorthodox configurations of circuitry. The study of ipRGCs has yielded insight into general topics that include photoreceptor evolution, cellular diversity, and the steps from biophysical mechanisms to behavior.

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Authors
Do, M. T. H.
Venue
Neuron
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2019-10
Volume
104
Issue
2
Pages
205-226
ISSN
0896-6273 (ISSN-L)
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312
References
258
FWCI
11.58
Type
journal article
Language
en
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