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The Journal of Neuroscience, May 28, 2008, 28(22):5691-5695; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0403-08.2008

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Feedback from Horizontal Cells to Rod Photoreceptors in Vertebrate Retina

Wallace B. Thoreson,^1,2 Norbert Babai,¹ and Theodore M. Bartoletti^1,2

Departments of ¹Ophthalmology and Visual Science and ²Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska 68198

	Abstract

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Retinal horizontal cells (HCs) provide negative feedback to cones, but, largely because annular illumination fails to evoke a depolarizing response in rods, it is widely believed that there is no feedback from HCs to rods. However, feedback from HCs to cones involves small changes in the calcium current (I_Ca) that do not always generate detectable depolarizing responses. We therefore recorded I_Ca directly from rods to test whether they were modulated by feedback from HCs. To circumvent problems presented by overlapping receptive fields of HCs and rods, we manipulated the membrane potential of voltage-clamped HCs while simultaneously recording from rods in a salamander retinal slice preparation. Like HC feedback in cones, hyperpolarizing HCs from –14 to –54, –84, and –104 mV increased the amplitude of I_Ca recorded from synaptically connected rods and caused hyperpolarizing shifts in I_Ca voltage dependence. These effects were blocked by supplementing the bicarbonate-buffered saline solution with HEPES. In rods lacking light-responsive outer segments, hyperpolarizing neighboring HCs with light caused a negative activation shift and increased the amplitude of I_Ca. These changes in I_Ca were blocked by HEPES and by inhibiting HC light responses with a glutamate antagonist, indicating that they were caused by HC feedback. These results show that rods, like cones, receive negative feedback from HCs that regulates the amplitude and voltage dependence of I_Ca. HC-to-rod feedback counters light-evoked decreases in synaptic output and thus shapes the transmission of rod responses to downstream visual neurons.

Key words: synaptic transmission; pH; scotopic vision; calcium current; feedback; horizontal cell

	Introduction

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A principal function of retinal horizontal cells (HCs) is to provide negative feedback to cone photoreceptors, thereby contributing to the formation of center-surround receptive fields (for review, see Burkhardt, 1993; Kamermans and Spekreijse, 1999). Although feedback from HCs to cones is well established, a number of investigators concluded that HCs do not provide feedback to rods, largely because wide-field or annular illumination failed to evoke depolarizing responses in rods (Brown and Pinto, 1974; Copenhagen and Owen, 1976; Miyachi et al., 1984; Lasansky, 1986). However, rods in lower vertebrates are coupled extensively with one another, creating large receptive fields that overlap extensively with HC receptive fields (Copenhagen and Owen, 1976; Attwell et al., 1984; Zhang and Wu, 2005) and can obscure feedback interactions. Furthermore, it is now clear that feedback from HCs to cones produces small changes in L-type calcium currents (I_Ca) of cones that do not necessarily result in large depolarizing responses (Gerschenfeld et al., 1980; Verweij et al., 1996). In support of the possibility of feedback from HCs to rods, Normann and Pochobradsky (1976) reported that wide-field illumination stimulated delayed oscillations in the rod membrane potential.

We reexamined the question of whether rods receive feedback from HCs by studying I_Ca in voltage-clamped rods. To circumvent the problem of overlapping receptive fields in rods and HCs, we directly manipulated the membrane potential of simultaneously recorded HCs. We also examined light-evoked feedback interactions by recording from rods that lacked outer segments. The results of these experiments show that, like feedback from HCs to cones (Verweij et al., 1996; Hirasawa and Kaneko, 2003; Cadetti and Thoreson, 2006), HC hyperpolarization increases the amplitude of rod I_Ca and shifts its activation to more negative potentials. Also like HC-to-cone feedback, HC-to-rod feedback was blocked by application of the pH buffer, HEPES, or inhibition of HC glutamate receptors. The net effect of HC-to-rod feedback during a light flash is to increase rod I_Ca and thus increase rod synaptic output. By shaping transmission at the first synapse in the rod pathway, HC-to-rod feedback is likely to influence vision under scotopic and mesopic conditions.

	Materials and Methods

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Experiments were performed using retinal slices from aquatic tiger salamanders (Ambystoma tigrinum) because of their large rods. Methods were similar to those described previously (Rabl et al., 2005). Animals were handled according to protocols approved by the University of Nebraska Medical Center Animal Care and Use Committee. For experiments requiring light responses, we prepared slices under infrared illumination using night vision goggles (Nitemate NAV3; Litton Industries). Slices were superfused at 1 ml/min with a solution containing the following (in mM): 101 NaCl, 22 NaHCO₃, 2.5 KCl, 2 CaCl₂, 0.5 MgCl₂, and 9 glucose. This solution attained a pH of 7.35–7.37 after bubbling with 95% O₂/5% CO₂. The same pH was also attained after adding 1 mM kynurenic acid to the superfusate. In some experiments, pH buffering capacity was increased by adding 10 mM HEPES. While bubbling with 95% O₂/5% CO₂, the pH of the HEPES-containing solution was adjusted with 1 M NaOH to match that of the control bicarbonate-buffered solution.

Whole-cell recordings were obtained using 10–15 M patch electrodes fabricated from borosilicate glass (1.2 mm outer diameter, 0.95 mm inner diameter, with internal filament; World Precision Instruments) on a PP-830 micropipette puller (Narishige USA). The pipette solution for HCs contained the following (in mM): 94 Cs-gluconate, 9.4 tetraethylammonium (TEA)-Cl, 1.9 MgCl₂, 9.4 MgATP, 0.5 GTP, 5 EGTA, and 32.9 HEPES, pH 7.2. The pipette solution for rods contained the following (in mM): 15 Cs-gluconate, 70 Cs-glutamate, 10 TEA-Cl, 3.5 NaCl, 10 HEPES, 5 EGTA, 1 CaCl₂, 10 MgATP, 0.5 GTP, and 2 glucose, pH 7.2. Membrane potential values were corrected for a junction potential of –14 mV calculated with pClamp's junction potential calculator. Rods and HCs were voltage clamped simultaneously using a Multiclamp patch-clamp amplifier (Molecular Devices). Currents were acquired using a Digidata 1322 interface and pClamp 9.2 software (Molecular Devices).

Rods were identified by shape and HCs by their characteristic responses and morphology (Thoreson et al., 1997). Using pClamp's membrane test routine, R_a, R_m, and C_m of rod recordings were found to average 43.0 ± 2.6 M, 291 ± 22 M, and 23.9 ± 4.4 pF (n = 31), respectively. In HCs, R_a, R_m, and C_m averaged 47.9 ± 4.9 M, 269 ± 57 M, and 55.1 ± 6.1 pF (n = 17), respectively. EPSCs evoked in HCs by depolarization of simultaneously voltage-clamped presynaptic rods exhibited a reversal potential near 0 mV, as expected for glutamate-gated cation channels (n = 13).

Rod I_Ca was measured using a ramp voltage protocol (–104 to +46 mV, 0.5 mV/ms) applied from a steady holding potential of –84 mV. To fit I_Ca with a Boltzmann function, the fitting region extended from baseline to just beyond the peak of I_Ca to avoid contributions from residual outward K⁺ currents at more positive potentials. The rod membrane resistance between –90 and –70 mV was subtracted digitally. HC holding potential was varied among –104, –84, –54, and –14 mV. We averaged two trials in opposite sequence to minimize effects of run-up or run-down (e.g., one representative HC holding potential sequence: –54, –84, –104, –14, –14, –104, –84, –54 mV). Sequences were varied between cells to avoid order effects.

The criterion for statistical significance was chosen to be p < 0.05 and evaluated using Student's t test and GraphPad Prism 4.0. Variability is reported as ±SEM.

	Results

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To test for feedback from HCs to rods, we obtained simultaneous whole-cell recordings from a rod and postsynaptic HC in the salamander retinal slice (Fig. 1). The L-type I_Ca in rods was recorded using a ramp voltage protocol. When HCs were held at –54 mV, the best fit to rod I_Ca by a Boltzmann function adjusted for driving force yielded the following parameters: peak amplitude = 129.9 ± 12.1 pA; V₅₀ = –35.8 ± 1.0 mV; slope = –7.8 ± 0.4; E_rev = ±8.9 ± 5.7 mV (n = 22). Shifting the HC holding potential from –54 to –84 mV caused a small increase in the simultaneously recorded rod I_Ca and shifted its activation toward more negative potentials (Fig. 1B). Hyperpolarizing the HC further to –104 mV caused a further increase in I_Ca and shifted I_Ca activation to still more negative potentials. On the other hand, depolarizing the HC to –14 mV caused I_Ca to decrease and activate at more positive potentials. To quantify the shift in voltage dependence, we measured the voltage at which the current was half maximal (V₅₀). Figure 1C shows the average shift in V₅₀ produced by changes in HC potential relative to the value of V₅₀ determined when the HC was held at –54 mV. The shift in V₅₀ was linear with changes in HC membrane potential, with a shift of –0.33 mV per 10 mV hyperpolarization of the HC. The change in I_Ca amplitude was also linearly related to HC membrane potential, with a reduction of 2.4% per 10 mV hyperpolarization of the HC (Fig. 1D). These results indicate that HCs provide feedback to rods similar to the feedback they provide to cones, in which HC hyperpolarization causes a negative activation shift and increases the peak amplitude of I_Ca recorded presynaptically (Verweij et al., 1996; Hirasawa and Kaneko, 2003; Cadetti and Thoreson, 2006).

View larger version (36K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Figure 1. Feedback from HCs to rods studied using simultaneous whole-cell recordings from HCs and rods. Hyperpolarizing the HC membrane potential from –14 to –54, –84, and –104 mV caused a progressive hyperpolarizing activation shift and increased the amplitude of rod ICa. A, Confocal stacks of a simultaneously recorded rod (yellow) and HC (magenta) stained with Lucifer yellow (2 mg/ml) and sulforhodamine B (0.5 mg/ml), respectively. Images were obtained using a spinning disk confocal microscope system (UltraView; Perkin-Elmer) with a black and white camera (Orca ER; Hamamatsu). Colors were added using Adobe Photoshop. Confocal stacks of the two stained cells were superimposed on a bright-field image of the retinal slice. Scale bar, 10 µm. B, ICa recorded from a rod using a ramp voltage protocol. The steady HC holding potential was varied among –14 (purple trace), –54 (black trace), –84 (green), and –104 mV (blue). C, The average shift in V50 for ICa produced by changes in HC potential relative to V50 determined when the HC was held at –54 mV. The shift in V50 was fit by linear regression (slope = 0.0328 ± 0.00243; r2 = 0.73; n = 17). Addition of HEPES (10 mM) to the superfusate blocked the shift in V50 (open circles; n = 9). D, The change in ICa amplitude as a function of HC holding potential fit by linear regression (slope = –0.00244 ± 0.000344; r2 = 0.43; n = 17). Addition of HEPES blocked the increase in ICa amplitude as a function of HC hyperpolarization (open circles; n = 9).

 
We determined whether cell pairs were synaptically connected by applying a depolarizing test step from –84 to –24 mV (100 ms) to the rod. In all 17 cell pairs that exhibited feedback interactions, the test step evoked a postsynaptic current in the HC. In contrast, in all three rod/HC pairs in which postsynaptic currents were not observed, HC polarization did not detectably influence the amplitude or voltage dependence of rod I_Ca. Polarization of synaptically connected ON (n = 3) or OFF (n = 5) bipolar cells also had no effect on rod I_Ca, indicating that feedback effects are limited to HCs.

HC-to-cone feedback is blocked by the addition of HEPES to the extracellular solution (Hirasawa and Kaneko, 2003; Vessey et al., 2005; Cadetti and Thoreson, 2006; Davenport et al., 2008). Likewise, addition of HEPES (10 mM) to the HCO₃-containing superfusate for 4 min. blocked the changes in amplitude and voltage dependence of I_Ca in rods produced by HC polarization (Fig. 1C). These changes recovered after washout of HEPES (data not shown). HEPES did not significantly alter the input resistance of rods (p = 0.98, paired t test; n = 15) or HCs (p = 0.70, paired t test; n = 18). Feedback effects on rod I_Ca were also not altered by the combined application of picrotoxin (100 µM) and strychnine (1 µM; n = 3). The ability of HEPES but not picrotoxin and strychnine to block effects of HC polarization on rod I_Ca suggests that feedback from HCs to rods involves a mechanism similar to feedback from HCs to cones.

We tested whether hyperpolarizing HCs by light produced effects on rod I_Ca similar to directly hyperpolarizing HCs during paired recordings. To minimize direct effects of light on the rod, we recorded from rods lacking outer segments. Rods lacking outer segments nonetheless exhibited small responses to light because of responses of neighboring rods that are connected by gap junctions (Copenhagen and Owen, 1976; Attwell et al., 1984; Zhang and Wu, 2005). A voltage ramp was applied to a rod after 1 s of illumination with a saturating white light to hyperpolarize surrounding HCs (Fig. 2A). HC membrane potentials averaged –59.0 ± 5.7 mV (n = 8) in darkness and –75.5 ± 5.3 mV after 1 s of illumination. There was no significant change in HC membrane potential over a 500 ms period of the light response from 0.5 to 1 s (+0.26 ± 0.11 mV; n = 8), indicating that the HC membrane potential remained essentially constant during the 300 ms needed to complete the voltage ramp in a rod. In rods with light-evoked currents <10 pA, suggesting a minimal degree of rod–rod coupling, light caused a significant leftward shift in the V₅₀ of I_Ca averaging –1.23 ± 0.17 mV (n = 19; p < 0.0001) and increase in I_Ca amplitude of 10.8 ± 3.6% (p = 0.0076) (Fig. 2). The changes in I_Ca produced by light-evoked hyperpolarization of HCs were similar to those produced by directly hyperpolarizing HCs from –54 to –84 mV during paired recording (Fig. 1).

View larger version (17K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Figure 2. Hyperpolarizing HCs by light caused a negative shift in voltage dependence and increased the amplitude of rod ICa. A, Light response of a horizontal cell evoked by a 3 s white light flash. B, ICa recorded using a ramp voltage protocol from a rod lacking its outer segment in darkness (black trace) and white light (gray trace). C, The leftward shift in the V50 of ICa induced by light in control conditions was blocked by application of HEPES (10 mM; n = 11; p < 0.0001) or kynurenic acid (KynA; 1 mM; n = 9; p < 0.0001). D, The light-induced increase in ICa peak amplitude was also blocked by application of HEPES (10 mM; n = 11; paired t test, p = 0.04) or kynurenic acid (1 mM; n = 9; paired t test, p = 0.026). *p < 0.05.

 
Like feedback effects from HCs to rods in paired recordings, the leftward shift and increased amplitude of I_Ca evoked by light were reversibly blocked by HEPES (10 mM) (Fig. 2). By causing a hyperpolarizing block of HC light responses, glutamate antagonists block light-mediated feedback from HCs (Thoreson and Burkhardt, 1990; Hirasawa and Kaneko, 2003; Verweij et al., 2003). The glutamate antagonist kynurenic acid (1 mM) blocked light-induced changes in the amplitude and voltage dependence of I_Ca recorded from rods lacking outer segments (Fig. 2). The hyperpolarization of HCs by bath application of kynurenic acid also caused a significant leftward shift in the V₅₀ of I_Ca averaging –5.1 ± 1.4 mV (n = 8; p = 0.008). Kynurenic acid may cause a larger shift than light because blocking all of the glutamate receptors causes greater HC hyperpolarization than does a light-evoked decrease in release of glutamate from photoreceptors (Thoreson and Burkhardt, 1990). After blocking feedback with kynurenic acid or HEPES, light sometimes caused a small rightward shift in I_Ca. This may be attributable to hyperpolarization of the rod terminal produced by the hyperpolarizing light responses of coupled rods. The blocking effects of HEPES and kynurenic acid suggest that the leftward shift and increased amplitude of rod I_Ca produced by light are caused by HC feedback.

	Discussion

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The present results show that hyperpolarization of HCs (whether by light or direct hyperpolarization of voltage-clamped HCs) exerts a feedback effect on rod terminals that increases the amplitude of I_Ca and shifts its voltage dependence in a hyperpolarizing direction. The net result is to enhance tonic activation of I_Ca in rods at physiological membrane potentials. Feedback interactions required synaptic contact between rods and HCs, but polarization of bipolar cells did not influence rod I_Ca, suggesting that feedback onto rod terminals is limited to HCs. An enhancement of I_Ca by HC feedback would account for oscillatory potentials generated by illumination of the receptive field surround in rods (Normann and Pochobradsky, 1976).

Bright light causes rods to hyperpolarize from a membrane potential of approximately –40 mV in darkness to a sustained membrane potential of between –45 and –50 mV in light (Attwell et al., 1987; Thoreson et al., 2003). When measured with a ramp applied from the holding potential of –84 mV, we found that I_Ca averaged approximately –70 pA in amplitude at –40 mV. However, when a rod is maintained at –40 mV for many seconds, I_Ca diminishes by 50% because of I_Ca inactivation and the depletion of extracellular calcium ions from the synaptic cleft (Rabl and Thoreson, 2002; Thoreson et al., 2003). Nonetheless, the shape of the current/voltage relationship can be used to predict light-evoked changes in I_Ca (Thoreson et al., 2003) and suggests that hyperpolarizing a rod to a potential of –45 to –50 mV reduces I_Ca by 16–54% from its tonic level in darkness. In recordings from rods that lacked light-sensitive outer segments, light caused a –1.2 mV activation shift and 10% increase in the peak amplitude of rod I_Ca. These light-evoked changes in rod I_Ca appeared to be caused by feedback from HCs, because they were blocked by HEPES and a glutamate antagonist, kynurenic acid (Thoreson and Burkhardt, 1990; Hirasawa and Kaneko, 2003; Vessey et al., 2005; Cadetti and Thoreson, 2006; Davenport et al., 2008). The feedback-induced leftward shift and increase in peak amplitude would be predicted to increase I_Ca at the rod membrane potential in light (–45 to –50 mV) by 10–14% of its amplitude in darkness, thereby restoring a large fraction of the reduction in I_Ca that occurs when a rod goes from dark to light. HC feedback may exert an even larger influence on rod I_Ca in intact retina than in rods recorded at the surfaces of retinal slices, where at least one-half of the neighboring horizontal cells were excised during the slicing procedure.

The mechanisms underlying HC-to-cone feedback remain under investigation, with proposals that feedback may be attributable to GABA, pH, or an ephaptic mechanism involving hemigap junctions (Thoreson and Burkhardt, 1990; Kamermans et al., 2001; Hirasawa and Kaneko, 2003; Tatsukawa et al., 2005). The goal of pharmacological experiments in the present study was not to distinguish among these different possibilities but to test whether agents that are known to block HC-to-cone feedback can also block feedback onto rod terminals. The ability of HEPES and kynurenic acid, but not picrotoxin and strychnine, to block feedback-mediated changes in I_Ca indicates that HC-to-rod feedback involves mechanisms similar to feedback at cone synapses (Thoreson and Burkhardt, 1990; Hirasawa and Kaneko, 2003; Vessey et al., 2005; Cadetti and Thoreson, 2006; Davenport et al., 2008).

Proposed functions of HC feedback in cones (Burkhardt, 1993; Kamermans and Spekreijse, 1999) suggest possible analogous functions of HC-to-rod feedback. (1) A major function of HC-to-cone feedback is the creation of center-surround receptive fields that enhance edge detection (Baylor et al., 1971). Consistent with such a function for horizontal cell-to-rod feedback, bipolar cells receptive fields in salamander retina exhibit center-surround antagonism under conditions in which synaptic input is provided entirely by rods (Hare and Owen, 1990). However, there is no evidence for center-surround receptive fields in mouse rod bipolar cells (Bloomfield and Xin, 2000). Although it has not yet been shown directly, the presence of HC feedback in mammalian rods is suggested by the anatomical finding that axon terminals of B-type HCs make synaptic contacts exclusively with rods (Hirano et al., 2005; Pan and Massey, 2007). (2) A second possible function of HC-to-rod feedback is suggested by the finding that HC feedback contributes to light adaptation in cones (Burkhardt, 1995). Similar to cones, feedback-mediated increases in I_Ca and synaptic release from rods would be predicted to restore postsynaptic sensitivity to subsequent light flashes and thus contribute to light adaptation. (3) HC-to-cone feedback has been proposed to enhance temporal frequency response characteristics (Burkhardt, 1993). By making postsynaptic responses more transient, feedback-mediated increases in synaptic transmission from rods might also improve the ability of bipolar cells to follow flickering stimuli under dim light conditions. (4) HC feedback to cones contributes to color opponent interactions (Dacey, 2000; Twig et al., 2003). Many HCs in lower vertebrates receive inputs from both rods and cones, raising the possibility that HC feedback to rods may allow color opponent interactions in the rod pathway under mesopic conditions. However, such interactions seem unlikely in mammalian retina because of the strong segregation of rod and cone inputs into HCs (Pan and Massey, 2007).

In summary, by studying simultaneously recorded pairs of horizontal cells and rod photoreceptors, we discovered that feedback from HCs can regulate the amplitude and voltage dependence of rod I_Ca using mechanisms similar to HC feedback in cones. During a light flash, HC-to-rod feedback partially restores the amplitude of I_Ca in rods and thus restores synaptic output. The consequences of horizontal cell feedback in rods for scotopic and mesopic vision have not yet been examined, but they may be similar to horizontal cell feedback in cones, where it has been proposed that feedback contributes to light adaptation, temporal frequency response characteristics of synaptic transmission, color opponency, and the generation of center-surround receptive fields.

	Footnotes

 
Received Jan. 29, 2008; revised April 21, 2008; accepted April 24, 2008.

This work was supported by National Eye Institute Grant EY-10542 and Research to Prevent Blindness. We thank Dr. Dwight Burkhardt for helpful discussion.

Correspondence should be addressed to Wallace B. Thoreson, Ophthalmology Department, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Durham Research Center, Room 4050, Omaha, NE 68198-5840. Email: wbthores{at}unmc.edu

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