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Probing inner retinal circuits in the rod pathway: A comparison of c-fos activation in mutant mice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2005

BRETT W. HANZLICEK ,
NEAL S. PEACHEY ,
CHRISTIAN GRIMM ,
STEPHANIE A. HAGSTROM  and
SHERRY L. BALL
BRETT W. HANZLICEK
Affiliation:
Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cleveland
NEAL S. PEACHEY
Affiliation:
Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cleveland Cole Eye Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland
CHRISTIAN GRIMM
Affiliation:
Department of Ophthalmology, University Eye Clinic, University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland
STEPHANIE A. HAGSTROM
Affiliation:
Cole Eye Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland
SHERRY L. BALL
Affiliation:
Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cleveland Cole Eye Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland Department of Psychology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland
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Abstract

We have used wild-type mice and mice possessing defects in specific retinal circuits in order to more clearly define functional circuits of the inner retina. The retina of the nob mouse lacks communication between photoreceptors and depolarizing bipolar cells (DBCs). Thus, all light driven activity in the nob mouse is mediated via remaining hyperpolarizing bipolar cell (HBC) circuits. Transducin null (Trα−/−) mice lack rod photoreceptor activity and thus remaining retinal circuits are solely generated via cone photoreceptor activity. Activation in inner retinal circuits in each of these mice was identified by monitoring light-induced expression of an immediate early gene, c-fos. The number of cells expressing c-fos in the inner retina was dependent upon stimulus intensity and was altered in a systematic fashion in mice with known retinal mutations. To determine whether c-fos is activated via circuits other than photoreceptors in the outer retina, we examined c-fos expression in tulp1−/− mice that lack photoreceptors in the outer retina; these mice showed virtually no c-fos activity following light exposure. Double-labeling immunohistochemical studies were carried out to more clearly define the population of c-fos expressing amacrine cells. Our results indicate that c-fos may be used to map functional circuits in the retina.

Keywords

Amacrine cellMouse retinac-fos immunohistochemistryInner retinal circuits
Type
Research Article
Information
Visual Neuroscience , Volume 21 , Issue 6 , November 2004 , pp. 873 - 881
Copyright
© 2004 Cambridge University Press

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