Mind the Gap Junctions: The Importance of Electrical Synapses to Visual Processing.
In this issue of Neuron, Kuo et al. (2016) show that coordinated interaction between electrical and chemical synapses in a defined retinal circuit enhances sensitivity to moving objects. Their work demonstrates how electrical and chemical synapses combine to improve information processing in a specific area of the CNS.
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA; Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA. Electronic address: jonathan.demb@yale.edu.
Jonathan B
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Department of Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA. Electronic address: jhsinger@umd.edu.
Joshua H
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D054351:Electrical Synapses; D017629:Gap Junctions; D006801:Humans; D009474:Neurons; D012160:Retina; D013569:Synapses