title: Olfaction and vision meet in the retina.
abstract: In fish, axons that originate in the olfactory bulb innervate the retina and increase luminance sensitivity. In this issue of Neuron, Esposti et al. (2013) investigate the mechanisms underlying this interaction to report modulation of synaptic gain and sensitivity in OFF bipolar cells but rarely in ON bipolar cells.
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. dowling@mcb.harvard.edu
authors.forename: John E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Dowling
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D009830:Olfactory Bulb / Q000378:metabolism*; D012160:Retina / Q000378:metabolism*; D051245:Retinal Bipolar Cells / Q000378:metabolism*; D012903:Smell / Q000502:physiology*; D015027:Zebrafish / Q000378:metabolism*