Retinoic acid inhibitors mitigate vision loss in a mouse model of retinal degeneration
Rod and cone photoreceptors degenerate in retinitis pigmentosa (RP). While downstream neurons survive, they undergo physiological changes, including accelerated spontaneous firing in retinal ganglion cells (RGCs). Retinoic acid (RA) is the molecular trigger of RGC hyperactivity, but whether this int...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8932665/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35302843 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abm4643 |
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author | Telias, Michael Sit, Kevin K. Frozenfar, Daniel Smith, Benjamin Misra, Arjit Goard, Michael J. Kramer, Richard H. |
author_facet | Telias, Michael Sit, Kevin K. Frozenfar, Daniel Smith, Benjamin Misra, Arjit Goard, Michael J. Kramer, Richard H. |
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description | Rod and cone photoreceptors degenerate in retinitis pigmentosa (RP). While downstream neurons survive, they undergo physiological changes, including accelerated spontaneous firing in retinal ganglion cells (RGCs). Retinoic acid (RA) is the molecular trigger of RGC hyperactivity, but whether this interferes with visual perception is unknown. Here, we show that inhibiting RA synthesis with disulfiram, a deterrent of human alcohol abuse, improves behavioral image detection in vision-impaired mice. In vivo Ca(2+) imaging shows that disulfiram sharpens orientation tuning of visual cortical neurons and strengthens fidelity of responses to natural scenes. An RA receptor inhibitor also reduces RGC hyperactivity, sharpens cortical representations, and improves image detection. These findings suggest that photoreceptor degeneration is not the only cause of vision loss in RP. RA-induced corruption of retinal information processing also degrades vision, pointing to RA synthesis and signaling inhibitors as potential therapeutic tools for improving sight in RP and other retinal degenerative disorders. |
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spelling | pubmed-89326652022-03-31 Retinoic acid inhibitors mitigate vision loss in a mouse model of retinal degeneration Telias, Michael Sit, Kevin K. Frozenfar, Daniel Smith, Benjamin Misra, Arjit Goard, Michael J. Kramer, Richard H. Sci Adv Neuroscience Rod and cone photoreceptors degenerate in retinitis pigmentosa (RP). While downstream neurons survive, they undergo physiological changes, including accelerated spontaneous firing in retinal ganglion cells (RGCs). Retinoic acid (RA) is the molecular trigger of RGC hyperactivity, but whether this interferes with visual perception is unknown. Here, we show that inhibiting RA synthesis with disulfiram, a deterrent of human alcohol abuse, improves behavioral image detection in vision-impaired mice. In vivo Ca(2+) imaging shows that disulfiram sharpens orientation tuning of visual cortical neurons and strengthens fidelity of responses to natural scenes. An RA receptor inhibitor also reduces RGC hyperactivity, sharpens cortical representations, and improves image detection. These findings suggest that photoreceptor degeneration is not the only cause of vision loss in RP. RA-induced corruption of retinal information processing also degrades vision, pointing to RA synthesis and signaling inhibitors as potential therapeutic tools for improving sight in RP and other retinal degenerative disorders. American Association for the Advancement of Science 2022-03-18 /pmc/articles/PMC8932665/ /pubmed/35302843 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abm4643 Text en Copyright © 2022 The Authors, some rights reserved; exclusive licensee American Association for the Advancement of Science. No claim to original U.S. Government Works. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial License 4.0 (CC BY-NC). https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) , which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, so long as the resultant use is not for commercial advantage and provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Neuroscience Telias, Michael Sit, Kevin K. Frozenfar, Daniel Smith, Benjamin Misra, Arjit Goard, Michael J. Kramer, Richard H. Retinoic acid inhibitors mitigate vision loss in a mouse model of retinal degeneration |
title | Retinoic acid inhibitors mitigate vision loss in a mouse model of retinal degeneration |
title_full | Retinoic acid inhibitors mitigate vision loss in a mouse model of retinal degeneration |
title_fullStr | Retinoic acid inhibitors mitigate vision loss in a mouse model of retinal degeneration |
title_full_unstemmed | Retinoic acid inhibitors mitigate vision loss in a mouse model of retinal degeneration |
title_short | Retinoic acid inhibitors mitigate vision loss in a mouse model of retinal degeneration |
title_sort | retinoic acid inhibitors mitigate vision loss in a mouse model of retinal degeneration |
topic | Neuroscience |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8932665/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35302843 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abm4643 |
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