Electrical coupling between rods and cones in the tiger salamander retina.
AUTOR(ES)
Wu, S M
RESUMO
Electrical coupling between rods and cones was studied in the salamander (Ambystoma tigrinum) retina by measuring the light responses and spectral sensitivities of rods and cones and by measuring the voltage responses from a rod to current pulses injected into a cone. A population of 10-20% of the photoreceptors exhibited a mixed-response waveform of the rod and the cone under dark-adapted conditions, and a response waveform closely resembled that of a cone in the presence of background illumination. Lucifer yellow injection revealed that these cells are morphologically identical to rods, and thus they are named rodcs. Dark-adapted rodcs exhibited a rod-like spectral sensitivity with a peak at approximately 520 nm that shifted to a cone-like spectral sensitivity with a peak at approximately 620 nm in response to background light (Purkinje shift). The voltage response of a rodc to a -1-nA current step injected into an adjacent cone is approximately 3.6 times larger than that of a rod to the same current step. These results indicate that there is a population of rods (rodcs) in the tiger salamander retina that is strongly coupled to the cones and that these cells allow significant mixture of rod and cone signals at the photoreceptor level.
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