| First Author | Kim T | Year | 2017 |
| Journal | Cell Rep | Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 7 | Pages | 1343-1350 |
| PubMed ID | 28514655 | Mgi Jnum | J:253184 |
| Mgi Id | MGI:6103425 | Doi | 10.1016/j.celrep.2017.04.060 |
| Citation | Kim T, et al. (2017) Inhibitory Control of Feature Selectivity in an Object Motion Sensitive Circuit of the Retina. Cell Rep 19(7):1343-1350 |
| abstractText | Object motion sensitive (OMS) W3-retinal ganglion cells (W3-RGCs) in mice respond to local movements in a visual scene but remain silent during self-generated global image motion. The excitatory inputs that drive responses of W3-RGCs to local motion were recently characterized, but which inhibitory neurons suppress W3-RGCs'' responses to global motion, how these neurons encode motion information, and how their connections are organized along the excitatory circuit axis remains unknown. Here, we find that a genetically identified amacrine cell (AC) type, TH2-AC, exhibits fast responses to global motion and slow responses to local motion. Optogenetic stimulation shows that TH2-ACs provide strong GABAA receptor-mediated input to W3-RGCs but only weak input to upstream excitatory neurons. Cell-type-specific silencing reveals that temporally coded inhibition from TH2-ACs cancels W3-RGC spike responses to global but not local motion stimuli and, thus, controls the feature selectivity of OMS signals sent to the brain. |
