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- Title
GABA responses of rod bipolar cells in rabbit retinal slices.
- Authors
McGILLEM, GREGORY S.; ROTOLO, THOMAS C.; DACHEUX, RAMON F.
- Abstract
GABAergic responses of rabbit rod bipolar cells were reexamined by using whole-cell recordings in the superfused slice preparation to determine if there is GABAC receptor input to their axon terminal and to characterize the contribution that GABAA and GABAC receptors make to the total GABA current on the axon terminals of these cells. Pharmacological agents specifically blocking GABAA and GABAC receptor currents demonstrated that 37% of the GABA-activated current was blocked by either the GABAA antagonists bicuculline or SR-95531, whereas the remaining 63% of the GABA current was blocked by a mixture of bicuculline and the GABAC antagonist TPMPA. This indicated that GABAC receptors were present on the axon terminal of the rabbit rod bipolar cell and that they were responsible for mediating the bicuculline insensitive GABA current.
- Publication
Visual Neuroscience, 2000, Vol 17, Issue 3, p381
- ISSN
0952-5238
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/s0952523800173067