Lateral actions at the inner plexiform layer of the carp retina: effects of turning windmill pattern stimulus |
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Authors: | K Sugawara |
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Institution: | Department of Neurophysiology, Neuroinformation Research Institute (NIRI), University of Kanazawa School of Medicine, Kanazawa 920, Japan |
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Abstract: | Lateral action from amacrine to ganglion cells was studied in the isolated carp retina by using a truncated windmill pattern (TWP). About 25% of ganglion cells of both "on" and "off" center types were suppressed or enhanced in firing activity in response to TWP turning. The suppressed cells were more sensitive to slow turning velocities of TWP than the enhanced cells. In the "on-off" type amacrine cells, a steady depolarizing or hyperpolarizing component (less than several mV) was maintained by stationary TWP, while the cells were exclusively depolarized by turning TWP at a wide range of velocities. These results suggest that individual responses of ganglion cells induced by both stationary and turning TWP are depending on a balance between two factors: the polarizing direction of steady components of the "on-off" amacrine cells and the polarizing direction of ganglion cells synaptically produced by the amacrine cells. |
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Keywords: | Carp retina Amacrine cell Ganglion cell Inner plexiform layer (IPL) Lateral action Windmill pattern |
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