Feedback effects of horizontal cell membrane potential on cone calcium currents studied with simultaneous recordings

تعليق: الأس الهيدروجيني والإبصار ودواء الكاربينوكسالون العرقسوسي.--احمد شوقي محمدين 16:40، 3 نوفمبر 2016 (ت ع م)

J Neurophysiol. 2006 Mar;95(3):1992-5. Epub 2005 Dec 21. DOI: 10.1152/jn.01042.2005

Feedback effects of horizontal cell membrane potential on cone calcium currents studied with simultaneous recordings.

Cadetti L1, Thoreson WB.

Abstract

Horizontal cell (HC) to cone feedback helps establish the center-surround arrangement of visual receptive fields. It has been shown that HC activity influences cone synaptic output by altering the amplitude and voltage dependence of the calcium current (ICa) in cones. In this study, we obtained voltage-clamp recordings simultaneously from cones and HCs to directly control the membrane potential of HCs and thereby measure the influence of HC membrane potential changes on ICa in adjacent cones. Directly hyperpolarizing voltage clamped HCs produced a negative activation shift and increased the amplitude of ICa in cones. Both of these effects were abolished by enhancing extracellular pH buffering capacity with HEPES. In contrast, addition of the gap junction blocker, carbenoxolone, did not significantly alter the shifts or amplitude changes in cone ICa produced by changes in HC membrane potential. These results support the hypothesis that changes in the HC membrane potential alter the voltage dependence and amplitude of cone ICa by altering extracellular pH levels at the synapse.

PMID: 16371457 PMCID: PMC2474467

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16371457