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vision Flashcards

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Review: tongue

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taste cells (roughly 100) are composed of a taste bud. taste buds are on papillae. more taste buds = stronger discernment of taste

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Review: taste cells

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NON-NEURONAL but can transduce molecules in food to electrical signals that synapse onto gustatory aferent axons via chemical synapses.
Neurotransmitter mechanism is unknown.
Most taste cells respond to >tastants

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Review: olfactory neurons

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cilia protrude into mucus layer that senses volatile molecules and transduce that signals to the olfactory bulb (through specialized epithelium, and pores in the cribiform plate). Utilizes special GPCR that promotes Na+ and Ca2+ influx as well as Cl- efflux

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Review: olfactory sensory neurons

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Neural encoding of odorants, the role of olfactory interneurons and the transduction of smells by the olfactory receptor cells -> olfactory bulb -> many brain regions (thalamus/hypothalamus/amydala) -> olfactory cortex

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Properties of light

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reflection, absorption, and refraction

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Anatomy of eye

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pupil, sclera, iris, cornea, and optic nerve

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Pupil

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opening where light enters the eye (the black center)

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Iris

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gives color to eye

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sclera

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white of the eye

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cornea

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glassy transparent external surface of the eye (the part you put your contacts on)

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optic nerve

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bundle of axons from the retina (behind the eye)

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refraction of light by the cornea

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incoming light is refracted, focused on the retina, and transduced into an image

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fovea

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a small depression in the retina of the eye where visual acuity is highest. Center of field of vision is focused in this region, where retinal cones are particularly concentrated
does sharp central vision (useful for things like reading and driving)

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Direct (vertical) pathway of retinal signal transduction

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photoreceptors -> bipolar cells -> ganglion cells

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Retinal signal transduction

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retinal processing influenced by: lateral connections, ie: horizontal cells and amacrine cells

  • the only light-sensitive cells in retina are photo receptors EXCEPT for intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells
    • the ganglion cells are the only source of output from the retina
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Horizontal cells

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receives input from photoreceptors and projects laterally to influence surrounding bipolar cells and photoreceptors

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amacrine cells

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receives input from bipolar cells and projects to ganglion cells, bipolar cells, and other amacrine cells

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photoreceptor structure

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converts light to neural structure via the four main regions:
outer segment
inner segment
cell body
synaptic terminal
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types of photoreceptors

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rods and cones (“classic” retinal ganglion cells)

intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (ipRGCs)

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rods

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100 million in the human retina
1 type
exquisitely sensitive to a photon of light
more discs = more sensitivity
responsible for night vision (scotopic conditions)
contains rhodopsin (retinal+opsin)

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cones

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6 million in the human retina
3 types (L = long wave; M = medium waves; and S = short wave)
less sensitive to light, but faster to respond
responsible for daytime color vision (photopic conditions)
contains photopsin

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photopsin

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retinal and an opsin variant (distinguished by its absorption spectrum, rhodopsin is red when there is no light, reason why our eyes get redder)

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phototransduction

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photons leading to closing of constitutively active cation channels in photoreceptor outer segments
this causes hyperpolarizing potential and decreasing neurotransmitter release

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single photon amplification

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a rhodopsin molecule that absorbs a photon has 67% chance of being photoisomerized, which triggers electrical response with >80% reliability
each R molecule activates 100 molecule of transducin
2 T per one phosphodiesterase
1 phosphodiesterase capable of hydrolyzing >1000 molecules of cGMP per second

cGMP sink closes hundreds of the ten thousand channels that are open; this causes 10 MILLION na+ ions to be prevented from entering outer segment
**TL;DR: tight control of amplification process, amplifies v big

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mechanism of phototransduction

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light absorbing retinal (aldehyde form of vit A undergoes conformatoinal change from absorbing photon of light from 11-cis retinal to all-trans retinal)
retinal is covalently attached to opsin and because all-trans isomer fits differently inside opsin (specifically not in 11-cis binding site) opsin undergoes conformational change
this change triggers visual transduction by way of GPCR

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regional differences in retinal structure

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cones found primarily in central retina near fovea
central retina has lower ratio of photoreceptors to ganglion cells = better resolution
peripheral retina has higher ratio of photoreceptors to ganglion cells = better at detecting dim light

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dark adaptation

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dark:
takes roughly 20 minutes to stabilize, pupils dilate - more light enters eye and hits retina; regeneration of unbleached rhodopsin
can increase sensitivity to light by >1,000,000x

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light adaptation

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~5 minutes to stabilize
pubils constrict - less light reaches retina
cones transition from maximally hyperpolarized to gradually depolarized
Na+/Ca2+ channels gradually reopen, establishes new baseline; absolute light level is lost but relative changes can now be sensed

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ON and OFF bipolar cells

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ON bipolar cells: GPCR, responds to glutamate by hyperpolarizing and releasing less glutamate

OFF bipolar cells: ionotropic (glutamate gated Na+ channel); responds to glutamate by depolarizing and releasing more glutamate

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retinofugal projection

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neuronal pathway that projects away from retina

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image forming vision

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right and left hemifields
small number of optic tract axons connect to hypothalamus
~10% form connections in the midbrain
most ~88% innervate lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) of the dorsal thalamus
neurons in LGN project to primary visual cortex via optic radiation

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macular degeneration

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degeneration of macula, including fovea and surrounding region
loss of central region

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retinitis pigmentosa

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heretidary disease, initially affects rods and peripheral vision
progresses to cones and then blind

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lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN)

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little or no information process beyond this structure done in retina

two hypothesis as to why this does information processing:

  1. brings retinotopic maps from both eyes into register to make easy for the cortex to combine inputs from both eyes
  2. only 10% of inputscome from the retina, and the other 90% are modulatory inputs from the cortex and brainstem - if instead all of these modulatory inputs fed back to the retina you’d have a blind spot 10x bigger due to huge increase in neuronal matter
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retinal input into lgn

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structure in each hemisphere receives input from temporal retina of ipsilateral eye and the nasal retina of contralateral eye

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dorsal pathway

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visually guided movement

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ventral pathway

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object recognition

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what is the role of the inferior temporal cortex

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facial recognition

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