Abstract:
:During development and aging and in amblyopia, visual acuity is far below the limitations set by the retina. Expression of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) in the visual cortex is reduced in these situations. We asked whether neurotrophic tyrosine kinase receptor, type 2 (TrkB) regulates cortical visual acuity in adult mice. We found that genetically interfering with TrkB/BDNF signaling in pyramidal cells in the mature visual cortex reduced synaptic strength and resulted in a loss of neural responses to high spatial-frequency stimuli. Responses to low spatial-frequency stimuli were unaffected. This selective loss was not accompanied by a change in receptive field sizes or plasticity, but apparent contrast was reduced. Our results indicate that a dependence on spatial frequency in the Heeger normalization model explains this selective effect of contrast reduction on high-resolution vision and suggest that it involves contrast gain control operating in the visual cortex.
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Nat Neuroscijournal_title
Nature neuroscienceauthors
Heimel JA,Saiepour MH,Chakravarthy S,Hermans JM,Levelt CNdoi
10.1038/nn.2534subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2010-05-01 00:00:00pages
642-8issue
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1097-6256issn
1546-1726pii
nn.2534journal_volume
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