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Organism: mouse, laboratory
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First Author: Dyer B
Year: 2024
Journal: Cell Rep Methods
Title: Defining spatial nonuniformities of all ipRGC types using an improved Opn4(cre) recombinase mouse line.
Volume: 4
Issue: 8
Pages: 100837
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First Author: Mao CA
Year: 2014
Journal: J Neurosci
Title: T-box transcription regulator Tbr2 is essential for the formation and maintenance of Opn4/melanopsin-expressing intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells.
Volume: 34
Issue: 39
Pages: 13083-95
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First Author: Shi Y
Year: 2025
Journal: Neuron
Title: Non-image-forming photoreceptors improve visual orientation selectivity and image perception.
Volume: 113
Issue: 3
Pages: 486-500.e13
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First Author: Vartanian GV
Year: 2015
Journal: Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci
Title: Using Flickering Light to Enhance Nonimage-Forming Visual Stimulation in Humans.
Volume: 56
Issue: 8
Pages: 4680-8
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First Author: Somasundaram P
Year: 2017
Journal: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Title: C-terminal phosphorylation regulates the kinetics of a subset of melanopsin-mediated behaviors in mice.
Volume: 114
Issue: 10
Pages: 2741-2746
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First Author: Zangen E
Year: 2024
Journal: Nat Commun
Title: Prefrontal cortex neurons encode ambient light intensity differentially across regions and layers.
Volume: 15
Issue: 1
Pages: 5501
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First Author: Wong KY
Year: 2012
Journal: J Neurosci
Title: A retinal ganglion cell that can signal irradiance continuously for 10 hours.
Volume: 32
Issue: 33
Pages: 11478-85
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First Author: Milosavljevic N
Year: 2016
Journal: Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci
Title: Chemogenetic Activation of ipRGCs Drives Changes in Dark-Adapted (Scotopic) Electroretinogram.
Volume: 57
Issue: 14
Pages: 6305-6312
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First Author: Pires SS
Year: 2009
Journal: J Neurosci
Title: Differential expression of two distinct functional isoforms of melanopsin (Opn4) in the mammalian retina.
Volume: 29
Issue: 39
Pages: 12332-42
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First Author: Wen X
Year: 2018
Journal: Front Cell Neurosci
Title: Elevated Pressure Increases Ca(2+) Influx Through AMPA Receptors in Select Populations of Retinal Ganglion Cells.
Volume: 12
Pages: 162
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First Author: Milner ES
Year: 2017
Journal: Cell
Title: A Population Representation of Absolute Light Intensity in the Mammalian Retina.
Volume: 171
Issue: 4
Pages: 865-876.e16
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First Author: Liu X
Year: 2012
Journal: PLoS One
Title: Heterogeneous expression of the core circadian clock proteins among neuronal cell types in mouse retina.
Volume: 7
Issue: 11
Pages: e50602
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First Author: Purrier N
Year: 2014
Journal: PLoS One
Title: Mice deficient of glutamatergic signaling from intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells exhibit abnormal circadian photoentrainment.
Volume: 9
Issue: 10
Pages: e111449
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First Author: Gompf HS
Year: 2015
Journal: J Biol Rhythms
Title: Impaired circadian photosensitivity in mice lacking glutamate transmission from retinal melanopsin cells.
Volume: 30
Issue: 1
Pages: 35-41
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First Author: Hughes S
Year: 2013
Journal: Curr Biol
Title: Nonuniform distribution and spectral tuning of photosensitive retinal ganglion cells of the mouse retina.
Volume: 23
Issue: 17
Pages: 1696-701
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First Author: Chew KS
Year: 2017
Journal: Elife
Title: A subset of ipRGCs regulates both maturation of the circadian clock and segregation of retinogeniculate projections in mice.
Volume: 6
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First Author: Quattrochi LE
Year: 2019
Journal: J Comp Neurol
Title: The M6 cell: A small-field bistratified photosensitive retinal ganglion cell.
Volume: 527
Issue: 1
Pages: 297-311
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First Author: Harrison KR
Year: 2021
Journal: Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci
Title: Amacrine Cells Forming Gap Junctions With Intrinsically Photosensitive Retinal Ganglion Cells: ipRGC Types, Neuromodulator Contents, and Connexin Isoform.
Volume: 62
Issue: 1
Pages: 10
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First Author: Lin CI
Year: 2019
Journal: eNeuro
Title: Blue Light Promotes Neurite Outgrowth of Retinal Explants in Postnatal ChR2 Mice.
Volume: 6
Issue: 4
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First Author: Delwig A
Year: 2016
Journal: PLoS One
Title: Retinofugal Projections from Melanopsin-Expressing Retinal Ganglion Cells Revealed by Intraocular Injections of Cre-Dependent Virus.
Volume: 11
Issue: 2
Pages: e0149501
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First Author: Kiyama T
Year: 2026
Journal: Commun Biol
Title: Tbr2-dependent parallel pathways regulate the development of distinct ipRGC subtypes.
Volume: 9
Issue: 1
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First Author: Jagannath A
Year: 2015
Journal: Curr Biol
Title: Isoforms of Melanopsin Mediate Different Behavioral Responses to Light.
Volume: 25
Issue: 18
Pages: 2430-4
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First Author: Tam SKE
Year: 2021
Journal: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Title: Dim light in the evening causes coordinated realignment of circadian rhythms, sleep, and short-term memory.
Volume: 118
Issue: 39
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First Author: Sikka G
Year: 2014
Journal: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Title: Melanopsin mediates light-dependent relaxation in blood vessels.
Volume: 111
Issue: 50
Pages: 17977-82
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First Author: Bhandari A
Year: 2019
Journal: Front Cell Neurosci
Title: Early-Stage Ocular Hypertension Alters Retinal Ganglion Cell Synaptic Transmission in the Visual Thalamus.
Volume: 13
Pages: 426
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First Author: Brown TW
Year: 2025
Journal: Cell Rep
Title: Retinal glia regulate development of the circadian photoentrainment circuit.
Volume: 44
Issue: 11
Pages: 116464
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First Author: Li JY
Year: 2018
Journal: J Comp Neurol
Title: Divergent projection patterns of M1 ipRGC subtypes.
Volume: 526
Issue: 13
Pages: 2010-2018
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First Author: Sexton TJ
Year: 2015
Journal: PLoS One
Title: G-Protein Coupled Receptor Kinase 2 Minimally Regulates Melanopsin Activity in Intrinsically Photosensitive Retinal Ganglion Cells.
Volume: 10
Issue: 6
Pages: e0128690
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First Author: Moldavan MG
Year: 2018
Journal: eNeuro
Title: Circadian Behavioral Responses to Light and Optic Chiasm-Evoked Glutamatergic EPSCs in the Suprachiasmatic Nucleus of ipRGC Conditional vGlut2 Knock-Out Mice.
Volume: 5
Issue: 3
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First Author: Lazzerini Ospri L
Year: 2024
Journal: Sci Adv
Title: Light affects the prefrontal cortex via intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells.
Volume: 10
Issue: 13
Pages: eadh9251
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First Author: Delwig A
Year: 2013
Journal: PLoS One
Title: Glutamatergic neurotransmission from melanopsin retinal ganglion cells is required for neonatal photoaversion but not adult pupillary light reflex.
Volume: 8
Issue: 12
Pages: e83974
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First Author: Caval-Holme F
Year: 2019
Journal: Curr Biol
Title: Gap Junction Coupling Shapes the Encoding of Light in the Developing Retina.
Volume: 29
Issue: 23
Pages: 4024-4035.e5
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First Author: Delwig A
Year: 2018
Journal: Vis Neurosci
Title: Melanopsin expression in the cornea.
Volume: 35
Pages: E004
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First Author: Maloney R
Year: 2024
Journal: J Comp Neurol
Title: Efficacy and specificity of melanopsin reporters for retinal ganglion cells.
Volume: 532
Issue: 2
Pages: e25591
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First Author: Kofuji P
Year: 2016
Journal: PLoS One
Title: Intrinsically Photosensitive Retinal Ganglion Cells (ipRGCs) Are Necessary for Light Entrainment of Peripheral Clocks.
Volume: 11
Issue: 12
Pages: e0168651
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First Author: D?az NM
Year: 2020
Journal: Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci
Title: Wounding Induces Facultative Opn5-Dependent Circadian Photoreception in the Murine Cornea.
Volume: 61
Issue: 6
Pages: 37
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First Author: Zhao X
Year: 2014
Journal: J Physiol
Title: Photoresponse diversity among the five types of intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells.
Volume: 592
Issue: 7
Pages: 1619-36
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First Author: Procyk CA
Year: 2022
Journal: Front Cell Neurosci
Title: Quantitative characterisation of ipRGCs in retinal degeneration using a computation platform for extracting and reconstructing single neurons in 3D from a multi-colour labeled population.
Volume: 16
Pages: 1009321
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First Author: Van Hook MJ
Year: 2020
Journal: Front Cell Neurosci
Title: Neuronal and Synaptic Plasticity in the Visual Thalamus in Mouse Models of Glaucoma.
Volume: 14
Pages: 626056
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First Author: McNeill DS
Year: 2011
Journal: Neural Dev
Title: Development of melanopsin-based irradiance detecting circuitry.
Volume: 6
Pages: 8
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First Author: Liao BZ
Year: 2026
Journal: J Neurosci
Title: Prolonged Light Exposure Induces Long-Lasting Retinal Wave Plasticity via Retrograde Melanopsin-Dopamine Signaling.
Volume: 46
Issue: 4
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First Author: Caval-Holme FS
Year: 2022
Journal: J Neurosci
Title: The Retinal Basis of Light Aversion in Neonatal Mice.
Volume: 42
Issue: 20
Pages: 4101-4115
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First Author: Kiyama T
Year: 2022
Journal: Cells
Title: Differential Susceptibility of Retinal Neurons to the Loss of Mitochondrial Biogenesis Factor Nrf1.
Volume: 11
Issue: 14
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First Author: Zhang Z
Year: 2021
Journal: Nat Commun
Title: The retinal ipRGC-preoptic circuit mediates the acute effect of light on sleep.
Volume: 12
Issue: 1
Pages: 5115
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First Author: Schmidt TM
Year: 2014
Journal: Neuron
Title: A role for melanopsin in alpha retinal ganglion cells and contrast detection.
Volume: 82
Issue: 4
Pages: 781-8
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First Author: Weng S
Year: 2013
Journal: PLoS One
Title: Mouse ganglion-cell photoreceptors are driven by the most sensitive rod pathway and by both types of cones.
Volume: 8
Issue: 6
Pages: e66480
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First Author: Huang YF
Year: 2023
Journal: EMBO Rep
Title: Light disrupts social memory via a retina-to-supraoptic nucleus circuit.
Volume: 24
Issue: 10
Pages: e56839
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First Author: Sheng Y
Year: 2021
Journal: Sci Rep
Title: Molecular determinants of response kinetics of mouse M1 intrinsically-photosensitive retinal ganglion cells.
Volume: 11
Issue: 1
Pages: 23424
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First Author: Hughes S
Year: 2015
Journal: Cell Mol Life Sci
Title: Using siRNA to define functional interactions between melanopsin and multiple G Protein partners.
Volume: 72
Issue: 1
Pages: 165-79
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First Author: Chambers S
Year: 2022
Journal: Exp Eye Res
Title: Trpm1: Novel function at the intersection of light and pain response in the iris.
Volume: 215
Pages: 108897
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First Author: Rao S
Year: 2013
Journal: Nature
Title: A direct and melanopsin-dependent fetal light response regulates mouse eye development.
Volume: 494
Issue: 7436
Pages: 243-6
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First Author: Chen SK
Year: 2011
Journal: Nature
Title: Photoentrainment and pupillary light reflex are mediated by distinct populations of ipRGCs.
Volume: 476
Issue: 7358
Pages: 92-5
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First Author: Berry MH
Year: 2023
Journal: Nat Commun
Title: A melanopsin ganglion cell subtype forms a dorsal retinal mosaic projecting to the supraoptic nucleus.
Volume: 14
Issue: 1
Pages: 1492
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First Author: Pottackal J
Year: 2021
Journal: J Neurosci
Title: Photoreceptive Ganglion Cells Drive Circuits for Local Inhibition in the Mouse Retina.
Volume: 41
Issue: 7
Pages: 1489-1504
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First Author: Sonoda T
Year: 2020
Journal: Science
Title: A noncanonical inhibitory circuit dampens behavioral sensitivity to light.
Volume: 368
Issue: 6490
Pages: 527-531
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First Author: Li S
Year: 2016
Journal: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Title: Promoting axon regeneration in the adult CNS by modulation of the melanopsin/GPCR signaling.
Volume: 113
Issue: 7
Pages: 1937-42
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First Author: Sonoda T
Year: 2018
Journal: Neuron
Title: Melanopsin Phototransduction Is Repurposed by ipRGC Subtypes to Shape the Function of Distinct Visual Circuits.
Volume: 99
Issue: 4
Pages: 754-767.e4
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First Author: Rupp AC
Year: 2019
Journal: Elife
Title: Distinct ipRGC subpopulations mediate light's acute and circadian effects on body temperature and sleep.
Volume: 8
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First Author: Fan SM
Year: 2018
Journal: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Title: External light activates hair follicle stem cells through eyes via an ipRGC-SCN-sympathetic neural pathway.
Volume: 115
Issue: 29
Pages: E6880-E6889
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First Author: Zhang X
Year: 2025
Journal: Nat Commun
Title: Functional optic tract rewiring via subtype- and target-specific axonal regeneration and presynaptic activity enhancement.
Volume: 16
Issue: 1
Pages: 2174
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First Author: P?rez-Fern?ndez V
Year: 2019
Journal: Curr Biol
Title: Rod Photoreceptor Activation Alone Defines the Release of Dopamine in the Retina.
Volume: 29
Issue: 5
Pages: 763-774.e5
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First Author: Voufo C
Year: 2023
Journal: Elife
Title: Circuit mechanisms underlying embryonic retinal waves.
Volume: 12
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First Author: Berg DJ
Year: 2019
Journal: eNeuro
Title: Transcriptomic Signatures of Postnatal and Adult Intrinsically Photosensitive Ganglion Cells.
Volume: 6
Issue: 4
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First Author: Lee T
Year: 2024
Journal: PNAS Nexus
Title: Specific retinal neurons regulate context-dependent defensive responses to visual threat.
Volume: 3
Issue: 10
Pages: pgae423
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First Author: Daly KM
Year: 2026
Journal: Cell Rep
Title: M4-ipRGCs regulate contrast sensitivity in vision.
Volume: 45
Issue: 7
Pages: 117662
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First Author: Komal R
Year: 2026
Journal: Nature
Title: ipRGC properties prevent light from shifting the SCN clock during daytime.
Volume: 650
Issue: 8103
Pages: 942-950
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First Author: Ecker JL
Year: 2010
Journal: Neuron
Title: Melanopsin-expressing retinal ganglion-cell photoreceptors: cellular diversity and role in pattern vision.
Volume: 67
Issue: 1
Pages: 49-60
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First Author: Nayak G
Year: 2020
Journal: Cell Rep
Title: Adaptive Thermogenesis in Mice Is Enhanced by Opsin 3-Dependent Adipocyte Light Sensing.
Volume: 30
Issue: 3
Pages: 672-686.e8
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First Author: Zhao M
Year: 2023
Journal: Cell Rep
Title: Osteopontin drives retinal ganglion cell resiliency in glaucomatous optic neuropathy.
Volume: 42
Issue: 9
Pages: 113038
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First Author: Nimkar K
Year: 2025
Journal: Neuron
Title: Molecular and spatial analysis of ganglion cells on retinal flatmounts identifies perivascular neurons resilient to glaucoma.
Volume: 113
Issue: 20
Pages: 3390-3407.e8
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Organism: Mus caroli
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Protein Coding Gene
Type: protein_coding_gene
Organism: Mus pahari
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Protein Coding Gene
Type: protein_coding_gene
Organism: Mus spretus
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First Author: Provencio I
Year: 2000
Journal: J Neurosci
Title: A novel human opsin in the inner retina.
Volume: 20
Issue: 2
Pages: 600-5
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First Author: Hattar S
Year: 2002
Journal: Science
Title: Melanopsin-containing retinal ganglion cells: architecture, projections, and intrinsic photosensitivity.
Volume: 295
Issue: 5557
Pages: 1065-70
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