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The Journal of Neuroscience, December 1, 2001, 21(23):9445-9454
Temporal Contrast Adaptation in Salamander Bipolar Cells
Fred
Rieke
Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington,
Seattle, Washington 98195
This work investigates how the light responses of salamander
bipolar cells adapt to changes in temporal contrast: changes in the
depth of the temporal fluctuations in light intensity about the mean.
Contrast affected the sensitivity of bipolar cells but not of
photoreceptors or horizontal cells, suggesting that adaptation occurred
in signal transfer from photoreceptors to bipolars. This suggestion was
confirmed by recording from photoreceptor-bipolar pairs and observing
a direct dependence of the gain of signal transfer on the contrast of
the light input. After an increase in contrast, the onset of adaptation
in the bipolar cell had a time constant of 1-2 sec, similar to a fast
component of contrast adaptation in the light responses of retinal
ganglion cells (Kim and Rieke, 2001). Contrast adaptation was mediated
by processes in the dendrites of both ON and
OFF bipolars. The functional properties of adaptation
differed for the two bipolar types, however, with contrast having a
much more pronounced effect on the kinetics of the responses of
OFF cells than ON cells.
Key words:
contrast gain control; contrast adaptation; bipolar cell; adaptation; temporal contrast; retinal signal processing
Copyright © 2001 Society for Neuroscience 0270-6474/01/21239445-10$05.00/0
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