Corticothalamic axons are essential for retinal ganglion cell axon targeting to the mouse dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus

JA Shanks, S Ito, L Schaevitz, J Yamada… - Journal of …, 2016 - Soc Neuroscience
Retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) relay information about the outside world to multiple
subcortical targets within the brain. This information is either used to dictate reflexive …

Retinal input regulates the timing of corticogeniculate innervation

TA Seabrook, RN El-Danaf, TE Krahe… - Journal of …, 2013 - Soc Neuroscience
Neurons in layer VI of visual cortex represent one of the largest sources of nonretinal input to
the dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus (dLGN) and play a major role in modulating the gain of …

Reciprocal connections between cortex and thalamus contribute to retinal axon targeting to dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus

Y Diao, L Cui, Y Chen, TJ Burbridge, W Han… - Cerebral …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The dorsal Lateral Geniculate Nucleus (dLGN) is the primary image-forming target
of the retina and shares a reciprocal connection with primary visual cortex (V1). Previous …

Activation of a visual cortical column by a directionally selective thalamocortical neuron

Y Bereshpolova, CR Stoelzel, C Su, JM Alonso… - Cell reports, 2019 - cell.com
The retinas of rabbits and rodents have directionally selective (DS) retinal ganglion cells that
convey directional signals through the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) of the thalamus to …

Limited functional convergence of eye-specific inputs in the retinogeniculate pathway of the mouse

J Bauer, S Weiler, MHP Fernholz, D Laubender… - Neuron, 2021 - cell.com
Segregation of retinal ganglion cell (RGC) axons by type and eye of origin is considered a
hallmark of dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus (dLGN) structure. However, recent anatomical …

Heterogeneity of retinogeniculate axon arbors

YK Hong, EF Burr, JR Sanes… - European Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The retinogeniculate synapse transmits information from retinal ganglion cells (RGC) in the
eye to thalamocortical relay neurons in the visual thalamus, the dorsal lateral geniculate …

Mouse dLGN receives functional input from a diverse population of retinal ganglion cells with limited convergence

MR Rosón, Y Bauer, AH Kotkat, P Berens, T Euler… - Neuron, 2019 - cell.com
Mouse vision is based on the parallel output of more than 30 functional types of retinal
ganglion cells (RGCs). Little is known about how representations of visual information …

Organization of the dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus in the mouse

D Kerschensteiner, W Guido - Visual neuroscience, 2017 - cambridge.org
The dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus (dLGN) of the thalamus is the principal conduit for
visual information from retina to visual cortex. Viewed initially as a simple relay, recent …

Layer-Specific Developmentally Precise Axon Targeting of Transient Suppressed-by-Contrast Retinal Ganglion Cells

NW Tien, C Vitale, TC Badea… - Journal of …, 2022 - Soc Neuroscience
The mouse retina encodes diverse visual features in the spike trains of> 40 retinal ganglion
cell (RGC) types. Each RGC type innervates a specific subset of the> 50 retinorecipient …

Mapping the Retina onto the Brain

D Kerschensteiner, MB Feller - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2024 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Vision begins in the retina, which extracts salient features from the environment and
encodes them in the spike trains of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs), the output neurons of the …