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JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-LONDON
Volume 572, Issue 1, Pages 215-225Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2005.103648
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- NEI NIH HHS [F32 EY15629, R01 EY008922, T32 EY013360, EY-02687, EY08922, T32 EY13360, P30 EY002687, F32 EY015629-02, F32 EY015629, F32 EY015629-01] Funding Source: Medline
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Rod bipolar cells relay visual signals evoked by dim illumination from the outer to the inner retina. GABAergic and glycinergic amacrine cells contact rod bipolar cell terminals, where they modulate transmitter release and contribute to the receptive field properties of third order neurones. However, it is not known how these distinct inhibitory inputs affect rod bipolar cell output and subsequent retinal processing. To determine whether GABA(A), GABA(C) and glycine receptors made different contributions to light-evoked inhibition, we recorded light-evoked inhibitory postsynaptic currents (L-IPSCs) from rod bipolar cells mediated by each pharmacologically isolated receptor. All three receptors contributed to L-IPSCs, but their relative roles differed; GABA(C) receptors transferred significantly more charge than GABA(A) and glycine receptors. We determined how these distinct inhibitory inputs affected rod bipolar cell output by recording light-evoked excitatory postsynaptic currents (L-EPSCs) from postsynaptic AII and A17 amacrine cells. Consistent with their relative contributions to L-IPSCs, GABA(C) receptor activation most effectively reduced the L-EPSCs, while glycine and GABA(A) receptor activation reduced the L-EPSCs to a lesser extent. We also found that GABAergic L-IPSCs in rod bipolar cells were limited by GABA(A) receptor-mediated inhibition between amacrine cells. We show that GABA(A), GABA(C) and glycine receptors mediate functionally distinct inhibition to rod bipolar cells, which differentially modulated light-evoked rod bipolar cell output. Our findings suggest that modulating the relative proportions of these inhibitory inputs could change the characteristics of rod bipolar cell output.
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