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- Title
Cone synapses in macaque fovea: I. Two types of non-S cones are distinguished by numbers of contacts with OFF midget bipolar cells.
- Authors
SCHEIN, STAN; NGO, IVY TRAN; HUANG, TERESA M.; KLUG, KARL; STERLING, PETER; HERR, STEVE
- Abstract
L and M cones, divided into two groups by absorption spectra, have not been distinguished by structure. Here, we report what may be such a difference. We reconstructed the synaptic terminals of 16 non-S cones and the dendritic arbors of their ON and OFF midget bipolar cells from high-magnification electron micrographs of serial thin sections of a small region of macaque fovea. Each cone terminal contacted a similar number (~16) of invaginating central elements provided by its ON midget bipolar cell. By contrast, the numbers of connections between a cone terminal and its OFF midget bipolar cell were grouped into two clusters: 30–37 versus 43–50 basal contacts in the triad-associated position and 41–47 versus 61–74 Outer Densities within those basal contacts. The coefficients of variation of these distributions were all in the range of 10% or lower, characteristic of single populations. If these two clusters correspond to M- and L-cone circuits, the results reveal structural differences between M and L cones and between their corresponding OFF midget bipolar cells.
- Subjects
SYNAPSES; MACAQUES; SENSORY neurons; ABSORPTION spectra; PHOTORECEPTORS; RETINA; ELECTRON microscopes; CELL physiology; PRIMATES as laboratory animals
- Publication
Visual Neuroscience, 2011, Vol 28, Issue 1, p3
- ISSN
0952-5238
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0952523810000477