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{"title":"Chemically induced cone degeneration in the 13-lined ground squirrel.","authors":"Hannah M Follett, Emma Warr, Jenna Grieshop, Ching Tzu Yu, Mina Gaffney, Owen R Bowie, Jong Won Lee, Sergey Tarima, Dana K Merriman, Joseph Carroll","doi":"10.1017/S0952523824000014","DOIUrl":"10.1017/S0952523824000014","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Animal models of retinal degeneration are critical for understanding disease and testing potential therapies. Inducing degeneration commonly involves the administration of chemicals that kill photoreceptors by disrupting metabolic pathways, signaling pathways, or protein synthesis. While chemically induced degeneration has been demonstrated in a variety of animals (mice, rats, rabbits, felines, 13-lined ground squirrels (13-LGS), pigs, chicks), few studies have used noninvasive high-resolution retinal imaging to monitor the <i>in vivo</i> cellular effects. Here, we used longitudinal scanning light ophthalmoscopy (SLO), optical coherence tomography, and adaptive optics SLO imaging in the euthermic, cone-dominant 13-LGS (46 animals, 52 eyes) to examine retinal structure following intravitreal injections of chemicals, which were previously shown to induce photoreceptor degeneration, throughout the active season of 2019 and 2020. We found that iodoacetic acid induced severe pan-retinal damage in all but one eye, which received the lowest concentration. While sodium nitroprusside successfully induced degeneration of the outer retinal layers, the results were variable, and damage was also observed in 50% of contralateral control eyes. Adenosine triphosphate and tunicamycin induced outer retinal specific damage with varying results, while eyes injected with thapsigargin did not show signs of degeneration. Given the variability of damage we observed, follow-up studies examining the possible physiological origins of this variability are critical. These additional studies should further advance the utility of chemically induced photoreceptor degeneration models in the cone-dominant 13-LGS.</p>","PeriodicalId":23556,"journal":{"name":"Visual Neuroscience","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11106521/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140897332","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Pre-stimulus bioelectrical activity in lightadapted ERG under blue versus white background - CORRIGENDUM.","authors":"Katherine Tsay, Sara Safari, Abdullah Abou-Samra, Jan Kremers, Radouil Tzekov","doi":"10.1017/S0952523823000044","DOIUrl":"10.1017/S0952523823000044","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23556,"journal":{"name":"Visual Neuroscience","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10808881/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139098722","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Evolution of the visual system in ray-finned fishes.","authors":"Michael H Hofmann, Isabelle C Gebhardt","doi":"10.1017/S0952523823000020","DOIUrl":"10.1017/S0952523823000020","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The vertebrate eye allows to capture an enormous amount of detail about the surrounding world which can only be exploited with sophisticated central information processing. Furthermore, vision is an active process due to head and eye movements that enables the animal to change the gaze and actively select objects to investigate in detail. The entire system requires a coordinated coevolution of its parts to work properly. Ray-finned fishes offer a unique opportunity to study the evolution of the visual system due to the high diversity in all of its parts. Here, we are bringing together information on retinal specializations (fovea), central visual centers (brain morphology studies), and eye movements in a large number of ray-finned fishes in a cladistic framework. The nucleus glomerulosus-inferior lobe system is well developed only in Acanthopterygii. A fovea, independent eye movements, and an enlargement of the nucleus glomerulosus-inferior lobe system coevolved at least five times independently within Acanthopterygii. This suggests that the nucleus glomerulosus-inferior lobe system is involved in advanced object recognition which is especially well developed in association with a fovea and independent eye movements. None of the non-Acanthopterygii have a fovea (except for some deep sea fish) or independent eye movements and they also lack important parts of the glomerulosus-inferior lobe system. This suggests that structures for advanced visual object recognition evolved within ray-finned fishes independent of the ones in tetrapods and non-ray-finned fishes as a result of a coevolution of retinal, central, and oculomotor structures.</p>","PeriodicalId":23556,"journal":{"name":"Visual Neuroscience","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11016354/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138809975","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Pre-stimulus bioelectrical activity in light-adapted ERG under blue versus white background","authors":"Katherine Tsay, Sara Safari, Abdullah Abu-Samra, Jan Kremers, Radouil Tzekov","doi":"10.1017/s0952523823000032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0952523823000032","url":null,"abstract":"<p>To compare the baseline signal between two conditions used to generate the photopic negative response (PhNR) of the full-field electroretinogram (ERG): red flash on a blue background (RoB) and white flash on a white background (LA3). The secondary purpose is to identify how the level of pre-stimulus signal affects obtaining an unambiguous PhNR component. A retrospective chart review was conducted on four cohorts of patients undergoing routine ERG testing. In each group, LA3 was recorded the same way while RoB was generated differently using various luminances of red and blue light. The background bioelectrical activity 30 ms before the flash was extracted, and the root mean square (RMS) of the signal was calculated and compared between RoB and LA3 using Wilcoxon test. Pre-stimulus noise was significantly higher under RoB stimulation versus LA3 in all four conditions for both right and left eyes (ratio RoB/LA3 RMS 1.70 and 1.57 respectively, <span>p</span> &lt; 0.033). There was also no significant difference between the RMS of either LA3 or RoB across protocols, indicating that the baseline noise across cohorts were comparable. Additionally, pre-stimulus noise was higher in signals where PhNR was not clearly identifiable as an ERG component versus signals with the presence of unambiguous PhNR component under RoB in all four groups for both eyes (<span>p</span> &lt; 0.05), whereas the difference under LA3 was less pronounced. Our study suggests that LA3 produces less background bioelectrical activity, likely due to decreased facial muscle activity. As it seems that the pre-stimulus signal level affects PhNR recordability, LA3 may also produce a better-quality signal compared to RoB. Therefore, until conditions for a comparable bioelectrical activity under RoB are established, we believe that LA3 should be considered at least as a supplementary method to evaluate retinal ganglion cell function by ERG.</p>","PeriodicalId":23556,"journal":{"name":"Visual Neuroscience","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138632608","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Two mechanisms for direction selectivity in a model of the primate starburst amacrine cell.","authors":"Jiajia Wu, Yeon Jin Kim, Dennis M Dacey, John B Troy, Robert G Smith","doi":"10.1017/S0952523823000019","DOIUrl":"10.1017/S0952523823000019","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In a recent study, visual signals were recorded for the first time in starburst amacrine cells of the macaque retina, and, as for mouse and rabbit, a directional bias observed in calcium signals was recorded from near the dendritic tips. Stimulus motion from the soma toward the tip generated a larger calcium signal than motion from the tip toward the soma. Two mechanisms affecting the spatiotemporal summation of excitatory postsynaptic currents have been proposed to contribute to directional signaling at the dendritic tips of starbursts: (1) a \"morphological\" mechanism in which electrotonic propagation of excitatory synaptic currents along a dendrite sums bipolar cell inputs at the dendritic tip preferentially for stimulus motion in the centrifugal direction; (2) a \"space-time\" mechanism that relies on differences in the time-courses of proximal and distal bipolar cell inputs to favor centrifugal stimulus motion. To explore the contributions of these two mechanisms in the primate, we developed a realistic computational model based on connectomic reconstruction of a macaque starburst cell and the distribution of its synaptic inputs from sustained and transient bipolar cell types. Our model suggests that both mechanisms can initiate direction selectivity in starburst dendrites, but their contributions differ depending on the spatiotemporal properties of the stimulus. Specifically, the morphological mechanism dominates when small visual objects are moving at high velocities, and the space-time mechanism contributes most for large visual objects moving at low velocities.</p>","PeriodicalId":23556,"journal":{"name":"Visual Neuroscience","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10207453/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9685400","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Colin Blakemore (1944–2022)","authors":"L. Spillmann","doi":"10.1017/S0952523822000074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0952523822000074","url":null,"abstract":"Colin Blakemore, who died in Oxford on June 27 last year at the age of 78, was a world-renowned British neuroscientist and a highly influential andmuch-admiredmember of the vision community. As a medical student at Cambridge, Blakemore was influenced by Richard Gregory, and he subsequently maintained a keen interest in all aspects of visual science. He is best remembered for his studies on the development of the visual brain in kittens and the demonstration of neural plasticity. His findings were crucial for a better understanding of how brain cells organize themselves in response to the visual environment after birth. After graduating with a First at Cambridge, Blakemore went to the University of California at Berkeley in 1965 for his Ph.D. There he worked with Horace Barlow and Jack Pettigrew on binocular depth discrimination in the cat. He found that the response of binocular units in area V1 depended crucially on the alignment of the binocular stimulus in the two eyes. When the stimulus in one eye was off target, the response was vetoed. Blakemore returned to Cambridge in 1968 to take up a lectureship in physiology and, 3 years later, to become a Fellow at Downing College. It was during that time that he left the study of perception behind in favor of combining behavioral methods and neurophysiological techniques for the study of the visual system. In a ground-breaking experiment with Grahame Cooper, in 1970, he demonstrated that a kitten, which was reared in complete darkness since birth and then exposed to a vertically striped cylinder for 5 hours every day, was severely visually impaired when tested half a year later. In addition to showing no placement response and being seemingly oblivious toward an approaching object, the kitten behaved as if it was blind to a moving horizontal line. Conversely, a kitten that had been exposed to a horizontally striped cylinder, was blind to a moving vertical line. These results showed that the striate cortex could bemodified by selective experience early in life and that normal visual experience is crucial for normal maturation. When the authors recorded from cortical cells, the typical orientation tuning was gravely disturbed and only those cells tuned to near-vertical (or horizontal) responded, consistent with the behavioral deficit. This experiment triggered the great Nature–Nurture debate in the seventies and eighties. Numerous studies were performed in Cambridge and by other vision scientists, to further elucidate the early development of vision and visual perception. In the early 1970s, for example, Blakemore and Richard Van Sluyters embarked on a series of deprivation studies in kittens, in which they surgically closed the lids of one eye and showed that the normal binocular dominance of cortical cells shifted entirely to the other eye. Conversely, when the previously open eye was closed and the initially closed eye reopened, the ocular dominance was reversed, so that now every cell was dominated","PeriodicalId":23556,"journal":{"name":"Visual Neuroscience","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44326981","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Impact of glaucoma on the spatial frequency processing of scenes in central vision.","authors":"Audrey Trouilloud,&nbsp;Elvia Ferry,&nbsp;Muriel Boucart,&nbsp;Louise Kauffmann,&nbsp;Aude Warniez,&nbsp;Jean-François Rouland,&nbsp;Carole Peyrin","doi":"10.1017/S0952523822000086","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0952523822000086","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Glaucoma is an eye disease characterized by a progressive vision loss usually starting in peripheral vision. However, a deficit for scene categorization is observed even in the preserved central vision of patients with glaucoma. We assessed the processing and integration of spatial frequencies in the central vision of patients with glaucoma during scene categorization, considering the severity of the disease, in comparison to age-matched controls. In the first session, participants had to categorize scenes filtered in low-spatial frequencies (LSFs) and high-spatial frequencies (HSFs) as a natural or an artificial scene. Results showed that the processing of spatial frequencies was impaired only for patients with severe glaucoma, in particular for HFS scenes. In the light of proactive models of visual perception, we investigated how LSF could guide the processing of HSF in a second session. We presented hybrid scenes (combining LSF and HSF from two scenes belonging to the same or different semantic category). Participants had to categorize the scene filtered in HSF while ignoring the scene filtered in LSF. Surprisingly, results showed that the semantic influence of LSF on HSF was greater for patients with early glaucoma than controls, and then disappeared for the severe cases. This study shows that a progressive destruction of retinal ganglion cells affects the spatial frequency processing in central vision. This deficit may, however, be compensated by increased reliance on predictive mechanisms at early stages of the disease which would however decline in more severe cases.</p>","PeriodicalId":23556,"journal":{"name":"Visual Neuroscience","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9970733/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10796492","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Overall patterns of eye-specific retino-geniculo-cortical projections to layers III, IV, and VI in primary visual cortex of the greater galago (<i>Otolemur crassicudatus</i>), and correlation with cytochrome oxidase blobs.","authors":"Jaime F Olavarria,&nbsp;Huixin Qi,&nbsp;Toru Takahata,&nbsp;Jon H Kaas","doi":"10.1017/S0952523822000062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0952523822000062","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Studies in the greater galago have not provided a comprehensive description of the organization of eye-specific retino-geniculate-cortical projections to the recipient layers in V1. Here we demonstrate the overall patterns of ocular dominance domains in layers III, IV, and VI revealed following a monocular injection of the transneuronal tracer wheat germ agglutinin conjugated with horseradish peroxidase (WGA-HRP). We also correlate these patterns with the array of cytochrome oxidase (CO) blobs in tangential sections through the unfolded and flattened cortex. In layer IV, we observed for the first time that eye-specific domains form an interconnected pattern of bands 200-250 μm wide arranged such that they do not show orientation bias and do not meet the V1 border at right angles, as is the case in macaques. We also observed distinct WGA-HRP labeled patches in layers III and VI. The patches in layer III, likely corresponding to patches of K lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) input, align with layer IV ocular dominance columns (ODCs) of the same eye dominance and overlap partially with virtually all CO blobs in both hemispheres, implying that CO blobs receive K LGN input from both eyes. We further found that CO blobs straddle the border between layer IV ODCs, such that the distribution of CO staining is approximately equal over ipsilateral and contralateral ODCs. These results, together with studies showing that a high percentage of cells in CO blobs are monocular, suggest that CO blobs consist of ipsilateral and contralateral subregions that are in register with underlying layer IV ODCs of the same eye dominance. In macaques and humans, CO blobs are centered on ODCs in layer IV. Our finding that CO blobs in galago straddle the border of neighboring layer IV ODCs suggests that this novel feature may represent an alternative way by which visual information is processed by eye-specific modular architecture in mammalian V1.</p>","PeriodicalId":23556,"journal":{"name":"Visual Neuroscience","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9634673/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9242523","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Differences in chromatic noise suppression of luminance contrast discrimination in young and elderly people.","authors":"Rosa Maria Guimarães Brito,&nbsp;Bruna Rafaela Silva Sousa,&nbsp;Letícia Miquilini,&nbsp;Paulo Roney Kilpp Goulart,&nbsp;Marcelo Fernandes Costa,&nbsp;Dora Fix Ventura,&nbsp;Maria Izabel Tentes Cortes,&nbsp;Givago Silva Souza","doi":"10.1017/S0952523822000050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0952523822000050","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Aging causes impairment of contrast sensitivity and chromatic discrimination, leading to changes in the perceptual interactions between color and luminance information. We aimed to investigate the influence of chromatic noise on luminance contrast thresholds in young and older adults. Forty participants were divided equally into Young (29.6 ± 6.3-year-old) and Elderly Groups (57.8 ± 6.6-year-old). They performed a luminance contrast discrimination task in the presence of chromatic noise maskers using a mosaic stimulus in a mosaic background. Four chromatic noise masking protocols were applied (protan, deutan, tritan, and no-noise protocols). We found that luminance contrast thresholds were significantly elevated by the addition of chromatic noise in both age groups (<i>P</i> < 0.05). In the Elderly group, but not the younger group, thresholds obtained in the tritan protocol were lower than those obtained from protan and deutan protocols (<i>P</i> < 0.05). For all protocols, the luminance contrast thresholds of elderly participants were higher than in young people (<i>P</i> < 0.01). Tritan chromatic noise was less effective in inhibiting luminance discrimination in elderly participants.</p>","PeriodicalId":23556,"journal":{"name":"Visual Neuroscience","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"33502861","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Glial cell response to constant low light exposure in rat retina.","authors":"Manuel G Bruera,&nbsp;María M Benedetto,&nbsp;Mario E Guido,&nbsp;Alicia L Degano,&nbsp;María A Contin","doi":"10.1017/S0952523822000049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0952523822000049","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>To study the macroglia and microglia and the immune role in long-time light exposure in rat eyes, we performed glial cell characterization along the time-course of retinal degeneration induced by chronic exposure to low-intensity light. Animals were exposed to light for periods of 2, 4, 6, or 8 days, and the retinal glial response was evaluated by immunohistochemistry, western blot and real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction. Retinal cells presented an increased expression of the macroglia marker GFAP, as well as increased mRNA levels of microglia markers Iba1 and CD68 after 6 days. Also, at this time-point, we found a higher number of Iba1-positive cells in the outer nuclear layer area; moreover, these cells showed the characteristic activated-microglia morphology. The expression levels of immune mediators TNF, IL-6, and chemokines CX3CR1 and CCL2 were also significantly increased after 6 days. All the events of glial activation occurred after 5-6 days of constant light exposure, when the number of photoreceptor cells has already decreased significantly. Herein, we demonstrated that glial and immune activation are secondary to neurodegeneration; in this scenario, our results suggest that photoreceptor death is an early event that occurs independently of glial-derived immune responses.</p>","PeriodicalId":23556,"journal":{"name":"Visual Neuroscience","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40377931","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}