Nature Communications (Jun 2017)

Dendro-dendritic cholinergic excitation controls dendritic spike initiation in retinal ganglion cells

  • A. Brombas,
  • S. Kalita-de Croft,
  • E. J. Cooper-Williams,
  • S. R. Williams

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15683
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Neural computations performed by the retinal microcircuit have been extensively studied. Here the authors report using dendritic recordings that the direction selective responses of retinal ganglion cells are controlled by dendro-dendritic cholinergic excitation from starburst amacrine cells.