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- Title
Cobalt ions inhibit negative feedback in the outer retina by blocking hemichannels on horizontal cells.
- Authors
I. FAHRENFORT; T. SJOERDSMA; H. RIPPS; M. KAMERMANS
- Abstract
In goldfish, negative feedback from horizontal cells to cones shifts the activation function of the Ca2+ current of the cones to more negative potentials. This shift increases the amount of Ca2+ 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 Co2+ block these feedback-mediated responses in turtle retina. The mechanism by which this is accomplished is unknown. We studied the effects of Co2+ on the cone/horizontal network of goldfish retina and found that Co2+ 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 Ca2+ 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 Ca2+ current in cones. Both the absence of this Co2+-induced shift of the Ca2+ current in the absence of a hemichannel conductance and the sensitivity of Cx26 hemichannels to low concentrations of Co2+ are consistent with a role for hemichannels in negative feedback from horizontal cells to cones.
- Publication
Visual Neuroscience, 2004, Vol 21, Issue 4, p501
- ISSN
0952-5238
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/s095252380421402x