{"id":175191,"date":"2023-10-30T23:26:46","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T04:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/how-a-single-synapse-transmits-both-visual-and-subconscious-information-to-the-brain-of-fruit-flies"},"modified":"2023-10-30T23:26:46","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T04:26:46","slug":"how-a-single-synapse-transmits-both-visual-and-subconscious-information-to-the-brain-of-fruit-flies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/how-a-single-synapse-transmits-both-visual-and-subconscious-information-to-the-brain-of-fruit-flies","title":{"rendered":"How a single synapse transmits both visual and subconscious information to the brain of fruit flies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-a-single-synapse-transmits-both-visual-and-subconscious-information-to-the-brain-of-fruit-flies3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Research led by Peking University, China, has discovered a single type of retinal photoreceptor cell in Drosophila (fruit fly) is involved in both visual perception and circadian photoentrainment by co-releasing histamine and acetylcholine at the first visual synapse.<\/p>\n<p>In a paper, \u201cA single photoreceptor splits perception and entrainment by cotransmission,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-023-06681-6\">published<\/a> in <i>Nature<\/i>, the team details the discovery that the Drosophila visual system segregates <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/visual+perception\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">visual perception<\/a> and circadian photoentrainment by co-transmitting two neurotransmitters, histamine and acetylcholine, in the R8 <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/photoreceptor\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">photoreceptor<\/a> cells.<\/p>\n<p>Light detection involves capturing signals through photoreceptors in the eye, which are essential for image formation and subconscious visual functions, such as regulating biological rhythms according to the daily light-dark cycle (photoentrainment of the <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/circadian+clock\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">circadian clock<\/a>). The optical system has distinct pathways for image formation (based on local contrast) and non-image-related tasks (based on global irradiance).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research led by Peking University, China, has discovered a single type of retinal photoreceptor cell in Drosophila (fruit fly) is involved in both visual perception and circadian photoentrainment by co-releasing histamine and acetylcholine at the first visual synapse. In a paper, \u201cA single photoreceptor splits perception and entrainment by cotransmission,\u201d published in Nature, the team [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}