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Functional properties of spontaneous IPSCs and glycine receptors in rod amacrine (AII) cells in the rat retina.
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Gill, Silje Bakken Veruki, Margaret Lin Hartveit, Espen |
| Copyright Year | 2006 |
| Abstract | AII amacrine cells play a crucial role in retinal signal transmission under scotopic conditions. We have used rat retinal slices to investigate the functional properties of inhibitory glycine receptors on AII cells by recording spontaneous IPSCs (spIPSCs) in whole cells and glycine-evoked responses in outside-out patches. Glycinergic spIPSCs displayed fast kinetics with an average 10-90% rise time of approximately 500 mus, and a decay phase best fitted by a double-exponential function with tau(fast) approximately 4.8 ms (97.5% amplitude contribution) and tau(slow) approximately 33 ms. Decay kinetics were voltage dependent. Ultrafast application of brief ( approximately 2-5 ms) pulses of glycine (3 mm) to patches, evoked responses with fast deactivation kinetics best fitted with a double-exponential function with tau(fast) approximately 4.6 ms (85% amplitude contribution) and tau(slow) approximately 17 ms. Double-pulse experiments indicated recovery from desensitization after a 100-ms pulse of glycine with a double-exponential time course (tau(fast) approximately 71 ms and tau(slow) approximately 1713 ms). Non-stationary noise analysis of spIPSCs and patch responses, and directly observed channel gating yielded similar single-channel conductances ( approximately 41 to approximately 47 pS). In addition, single-channel gating occurred at approximately 83 pS. These results suggest that the fast glycinergic spIPSCs in AII cells are probably mediated by alpha1beta heteromeric receptors with a contribution from alpha1 homomeric receptors. We hypothesize that glycinergic synaptic input may target the arboreal dendrites of AII cells, and could serve to shunt excitatory input from rod bipolar cells and transiently uncouple the transcellular current through electrical synapses between AII cells and between AII cells and ON-cone bipolar cells. |
| Starting Page | 255301 |
| Ending Page | 255301 |
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| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://cnc.cj.uc.pt/BEB/private/pdfs/2007-2008/RetinalPhis/Espen/Gill_2006_JPhysiol.pdf |
| PubMed reference number | 16825305v1 |
| Volume Number | 575 |
| Part | 3 |
| Journal | The Journal of physiology |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Amacrine Cells Dendrites Electrical Synapses Glycine Receptors Kinetics (discipline) NLRP3 gene NLRP3 wt Allele Retina Seizures exponential hypersensitivity desensitization voltage zinc potentiation of synaptic transmission, glycinergic |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
