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Amacrine-to-amacrine cell inhibition: Spatiotemporal properties of GABA and glycine pathways

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VISUAL NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 28, Issue 3, Pages 193-204

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CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523811000137

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We measured the spatial and temporal properties of GABAergic and glycinergic inhibition to amacrine cells in the whole-mount rabbit retina. The amacrine cells were parsed into two morphological classes: narrow-field cells with processes spreading less than 200 mu m and wide-field cells with processes extending more than 300 mu m. The inhibition was also parsed into two types: sustained glycine and transient GABA. Narrow-field amacrine cells receive 1) very transient GABAergic inhibition with a fast onset latency of 140 +/- 16 ms decaying to 30% of the peak level within 208 +/- 27 ms elicited broadly over a lateral distance of up to 1500 mu m and 2) sustained glycinergic inhibition with a medium onset latency of 286 +/- 23 ms that was elicited over a spatial area often broader than the processes of the narrow-field amacrine cells. Wide-field amacrine cells received sustained glycinergic inhibition but no broad transient GABAergic inhibition. Surprisingly, neither of these amacrine cell classes received sustained local GABAergic inhibition, commonly found in an earlier study of ganglion cells.

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