Study takeaways: What new research on retinal cell communication means for eye care
Researchers from Yale School of Medicine weigh in on what everyday clinicians can take away from their findings.
In an exclusive interview with Optometry Times, Yale School of Medicine researchers Yao Xue, PhD; Z. Jimmy Zhou, PhD; and Seunghoon Lee, PhD; and Co-director of the Yale Legacy Tissue Donation Program, Pathology Marcello DiStasio, MD, PhD, discussed findings from basic sciences research on basic science research into retinal circuitry, specifically the physiology of cone bipolar cells and their electrical coupling via gap junctions. The study, “A hierarchical electrical synaptic circuit mechanism for integrative parallel visual processing in the retina” published in Neuron, found that information channels in the retina are more integrated than previously thought.