(A) Schematic of behavioral setup to elicit the vertical OKR. The mouse is situated so that one eye is centered in a hemisphere. Stimuli are projected onto the hemisphere’s concave surface via …
Eye position (green) is plotted across time as a full-field grating oscillates vertically (lavender). The eye trace includes saccades (i.e., ‘fast nystagmuses,’ as indicated by tick marks: magenta …
Vertical eye movements were measured in response to static gratings to calculate eye drifts for baseline subtraction. (A) Example raw eye trace over 22 s of a static grating. The calculated position …
(A) Schematic illustrating unilateral bead injections into medial terminal nucleus (MTN) to retrogradely label ganglion cells in the contralateral retina. (B) Flat-mount retina with retrogradely …
(A) Sagittal section of medial terminal nucleus (MTN) following injection of fluorescent retrobeads (scale bar = 1mm). Dotted line outlines MTN. (B) Retrogradely labeled retinal ganglion cell somas …
(A) Distributions of the distance (in degrees) from each cell’s preferred direction to the point at which its response magnitude first drops below 50% of the response in the preferred direction. …
Retrogradely labeled oDSGCs were targeted for cell-attached recordings using a two-photon laser (860 nm). Spikes were measured from Superior and Inferior oDSGCs in response to the drifting bar …
(A) Map of retinal locations of all medial terminal nucleus (MTN)-projecting retinal ganglion cells recorded during cell-attached experiments in which epifluorescence targeting was used. D, T, V, …
(A) Map of retinal locations of all medial terminal nucleus (MTN)-projecting retinal ganglion cells recorded during cell-attached experiments in which two-photon targeting was used. D, T, V, and N …
(A) Inhibitory currents measured from an exemplar Superior oDSGC under voltage-clamp at +10 mV in response to a bar drifting in eight directions. Mean peak inhibitory current is presented as the …
(A, B) Linear tuning curve areas of the peak (A) inhibitory and (B) excitatory current measured in voltage-clamp recordings. Horizontal line represents median, box boundaries are IQR, and whiskers …
(A, C) Example extracellular spike rasters from (A) a Superior and (C) an Inferior oDSGC in response to a 1 s light increment (405 nm). The schematic above shows the timing of the increment relative …
(A) Confocal images of exemplar Superior (left) and Inferior (right) oDSGCs filled with dye. Convex polygons are drawn around the tips of their dendrites. (Bottom) Side views of different Superior …
(A) Membrane capacitance, (B) input resistance, (C) resting membrane potential, and (D) spike threshold potential were measured from Superior (magenta) and Inferior (gray) oDSGCs during whole-cell …
(A, B) Exemplar Inferior oDSGC in whole-cell current-clamp during (A) depolarizing and (B) hyperpolarizing current injection in response to a bar moving in eight directions. Numbers on concentric …
(A, B) Comparison of spike tuning curve metrics from cell-attached and current injection recordings. Histograms show the direction selectivity index (left) and area of the normalized tuning curve …
To measure the effects of depolarizing and hyperpolarizing current injections on the intrinsic properties of oDSGCs, the (A) peak rate of voltage change and (B) spike threshold potential were …
An exemplar ON direction-selective retinal ganglion cell (oDSGC) was modeled using parameters recorded directly from oDSGCs, including directionally tuned inhibitory conductances for each of eight …
Area of the normalized tuning curve for spikes (red) and underlying subthreshold membrane potentials (blue) as a function of the gain of an untuned excitatory input to a model ON direction-selective …
(A) Cell-attached tuning curves from an exemplar Superior oDSGC at high (green) and low (tan, 20% relative) contrasts. Numbers on concentric circles indicate spike counts. Dashed lines represent …
(A) Area of the normalized tuning curve from spike responses to high-contrast (abscissa) and low-contrast (ordinate) bars drifting in eight directions. Differences between Superior (magenta) and …
(A) Tuning curve area, (B) direction selectivity index, and (C) normalized area of the spike tuning curve were measured in the cell-attached configuration in response to high- and low-contrast …
(A) Schematic of the putative computation between oDSGCs and OKR, consisting of a subtraction between Superior and Inferior oDSGC spikes and a nonlinearity. (B–H) Two separate implementations of the …
Spikes of Superior and Inferior ON direction-selective retinal ganglion cells (oDSGCs) in response to the drifting bar stimulus were used to predict the magnitude of OKR gain in behaving animals. (A)…
(A) Oscillating sinusoidal gratings used in oDSGC electrophysiology were equivalent to those used in behavioral experiments. Motion directions apply to all panels. (B) Luminance of a single point in …
Eye movements were measured from head-fixed mice in response to an oscillating sinusoidal grating. All parameters of the grating were the same as under high-contrast conditions (Figure 1), except …
Vertical eye movements were measured in response to static, low-contrast (20% relative) gratings to calculate eye drifts for baseline subtraction. (A) Example raw eye trace over 22 s of a static …
(A) Input resistance in Superior (magenta) and Inferior (gray) oDSGCs calculated from current injection ramps in which current increases linearly from 0 to 50 pA over 0.25 seconds. (B) Steady state …
(A-B) Relationships between excitatory postsynaptic current (EPSC) tuning curve area and (A) direction selectivity index or (B) normalized area of the spike tuning curve. Data taken from cells in …
There is no significant relationship, indicating that inhibition is a poor predictor of spike tuning, but this may be caused by noise contributed by other circuit and cell-intrinsic processes. R and …
Reagent type (species) or resource | Designation | Source or reference | Identifiers | Additional information |
---|---|---|---|---|
Strain, strain background (Escherichia coli) | WT C57BL/6J Mice | The Jackson Laboratory | N/A | |
Antibody | Anti-Lucifer yellow (rabbit polyclonal) | Invitrogen | Cat #A5750; RRID:AB_1501344 | IF (1:500) |
Antibody | Anti-gephyrin (mouse monoclonal) | Synaptic System | Cat# 147111; RRID:AB_887719 | IF (1:500) |
Antibody | PSD-95 MAGUK scaffolding protein (mouse monoclonal) | Neuromab | Cat# 75-028; RRID:AB_2292909 | IF (1:500) |
Antibody | Anti-choline acetyltransferase (goat polyclonal) | Millipore | Cat# AB144P; RRID:AB_2079751 | IF (1:500) |
Antibody | Anti-mouse-Dylight 405 (donkey polyclonal) | Jackson ImmunoResearch | Cat# 715-475-150; RRID:AB_2340839 | IF (1:1000) |
Antibody | Anti-mouse-Alexa 647 (donkey polyclonal) | Jackson ImmunoResearch | Cat# 715-605-151; RRID:AB_2340863 | IF (1:1000) |
Antibody | Anti-mouse IgG, Fc_Subclass 1 Specific-Dylight 405 (goat polyclonal) | Jackson ImmunoResearch | Cat# 115-475-205; RRID:AB_2338799 | IF (1:1000) |
Antibody | Anti-mouse moncolonal IgG, Fc_Subclass 2a Specific-Alexa 647 (goat polycolonal) | Jackson ImmunoResearch | Cat# 115-605-206; RRID:AB_2338917 | IF (1:1000) |
Antibody | Anti-rabbit-Alexa 488 (donkey polyclonal) | Jackson ImmunoResearch | Cat# 711-545-152; RRID:AB_2313584 | IF (1:1000) |
Antibody | Anti-goat IgG (H+L)-Alexa 647 (donkey polyclonal) | Jackson ImmunoResearch | Cat# 705-605-147; RRID:AB_2340437 | IF (1:1000) |
Antibody | Streptavidin 488 conjugate antibody | Molecular Probes | Cat# S32354; RRID:AB_2315383 | IF (1:400) |
Chemical compound, drug | Ames’ Medium | United States Biological | Cat# A1372-25 | |
Chemical compound, drug | Vectashield | Vector Laboratories | Cat# H-1000; RRID:AB_2336789 | |
Chemical compound, drug | Red Retrobeads | Lumafluor | https://lumafluor.com/information | |
Chemical compound, drug | Lucifer yellow CH dilithium salt | Sigma | Cat# L0259 | |
Chemical compound, drug | Biocytin | Invitrogen | Cat# B1592 | |
Software, algorithm | Amira | Thermo Fisher Scientific | https://www.fei.com/software/amira-avizo/; RRID:SCR_014305 | |
Software, algorithm | Bassoon | Harris, 2022 | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6757605; RRID:SCR_023333 | |
Software, algorithm | Igor Pro | Igor Pro | RRID:SCR_000325 | |
Software, algorithm | ImageJ | NIH | https://imagej.nih.gov/ij/; RRID::SCR_003070 | |
Software, algorithm | Imaris | Bitplane | http://www.bitplane.com/; RRID:SCR_007370 | |
Software, algorithm | MATLAB | MathWorks | https://www.mathworks.com/products/matlab.html; RRID:SCR_001622 | |
Software, algorithm | Meshmapper | Paul Bourke | http://paulbourke.net/dome/meshmapper/ | |
Software, algorithm | ObjectFinder | Della Santina et al., 2013 | https://github.com/lucadellasantina/ObjectFinder; https://zenodo.org/record/4767847; RRID:SCR_023319 | |
Software, algorithm | Psychopy | Open Science Tools Ltd. Peirce, 2007 | https://psychopy.org/about/index.html | |
Software, algorithm | ScanImage | MBF Bioscience | https://www.mbfbioscience.com/products/scanimage | |
Software, algorithm | StreamPix | NorPix | https://www.norpix.com/products/streampix/streampix.php | |
Software, algorithm | Symphony and Stage | Cafaro, 2019 | https://github.com/Symphony-DAS/symphony-matlab; https://github.com/Stage-VSS/stage-v1 | |
Software, algorithm | VolumeCut | Della Santina et al., 2021; Della Santina, 2021 | https://github.com/lucadellasantina/VolumeCut; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5048331 |