PERIPHERAL SENSORY NEURONS EXPRESSING MELANOPSIN RESPOND TO LIGHT

PERIPHERAL SENSORY NEURONS EXPRESSING MELANOPSIN RESPOND TO LIGHT

The ability of light to cause pain is paradoxical. The retina detects light but is devoid of nociceptors while the trigeminal sensory ganglia (TG) contain nociceptors but not photoreceptors. Melanopsin-expressing intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (ipRGCs) are thought to mediate lig...

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Main Authors: Anna Matynia, Eileen Nguyen, Xiao-Ping Sun, Frank Blixt, Sachin Parikh, Jason Kessler, Luis Perez de Sevilla Muller, Samer Habib, Paul Kim, Zoey Zhe Wang, Allen Rodriguez, Andrew Charles, Steven Nusinowitz, Lars Edvinsson, Steven Barnes, Nicholas Brecha, Michael B Gorin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Neural Circuits
Subjects:
Choroid
Cornea
Trigeminal Ganglion
Migraine
Melanopsin
optic nerve injury
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fncir.2016.00060/full

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