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The retinae of Prototherian mammals possess neuronal types that are characteristic of non-mammalian retinae

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 June 2009

Heather M. Young  and
David I. Vaney
Heather M. Young
Affiliation:
Vision, Touch, and Hearing Research Centre, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Queensland, Queensland 4072, Australia
David I. Vaney
Affiliation:
National Vision Research Institute of Australia, Carlton, Victoria 3056, Australia
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Abstract

This study has shown that the retinae of Prototherian (egg-laying) mammals possess two neuronal types that are present in non-mammalian retinae, but absent or morphologically different in the retinae of Eutherian (placental) mammals. First, endogenous serotonin-like immunoreactivity has been localized in a population of presumptive amacrine cells in the platypus retina, the first such report in a mammalian retina. Second, the protein kinase C-immunoreactive (PKC-IR) bipolar cells in the echidna retina appear similar to the PKC-IR bipolars in the chicken retina, in that their dendrites give rise to a Landolt's club and their axons are multistratified. By contrast, the PKC-IR rod bipolar cells in the rabbit and in the brushtail possum, a Metatherian (marsupial) mammal, have no Landolt's clubs and their axons form terminal lobes in the innermost stratum of the inner plexiform layer.

Keywords

RetinaSerotoninProtein kinase CEchidnaPlatypus
Type
Research Article
Information
Visual Neuroscience , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , July 1990 , pp. 61 - 66
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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