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VISUAL NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 21, Issue 4, Pages 501-511Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S095252380421402X
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negative feedback; cones; horizontal cells; hemichannels; GABA; Co(2+)
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- NEI NIH HHS [EY-06516] Funding Source: Medline
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In goldfish, negative feedback from horizontal cells to cones shifts the activation function of the Ca(2+) current of the cones to more negative potentials. This shift increases the amount of Ca(2+) flowing into the cones, resulting in an increase in glutamate release. The increased glutamate release forms the basis of the feedback-mediated responses in second-order neurons, such as the surround-induced responses of bipolar cells and the spectral coding of horizontal cells. Low concentrations of Co(2+) block these feedback-mediated responses in turtle retina. The mechanism by which this is accomplished is unknown. We studied the effects of Co(2+) on the cone/horizontal network of goldfish retina and found that Co(2+) greatly reduced the feedback-mediated responses in both cones and horizontal cells in a GABA-independent way. The reduction of the feedback-mediated responses is accompanied by a small shift of the Ca(2+) current of the cones to positive potentials. We have previously shown that hemichannels on the tips of the horizontal cell dendrites are involved in the modulation of the Ca(2+) current in cones. Both the absence of this Co(2+)-induced shift of the Ca(2+) current in the absence of a hemichannel conductance and the sensitivity of Cx26 hemichannels to low concentrations of Co(2+) are consistent with a role for hemichannels in negative feedback from horizontal cells to cones.
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