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The Journal of Neuroscience, January 1, 2001, 21(1):287-299
Temporal Contrast Adaptation in the Input and Output Signals of
Salamander Retinal Ganglion Cells
Kerry J.
Kim and
Fred
Rieke
Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington,
Seattle, Washington 98195
We investigated how the light-evoked input and output signals of
salamander retinal ganglion cells adapt to changes in temporal contrast, i.e., changes in the depth of the temporal fluctuations in
the light intensity about the mean. Increasing the temporal contrast
sped the kinetics and reduced the sensitivity of both the light-evoked
input currents measured at the ganglion cell soma and the output spike
trains of the cell. The decline in sensitivity of the input
currents after an increase in contrast had two distinct kinetic
components with fast (<2 sec) and slow (>10 sec) time constants. The
recovery of sensitivity after a decrease in contrast was dominated by a
single component with an intermediate (4-18 sec) time constant.
Contrast adaptation differed for ON and OFF cells, with both the kinetics and amplitude of the light-evoked currents of OFF cells adapting more strongly than those of
ON cells. Contrast adaptation in the input currents of a
ganglion cell, however, was unable to account for the extent of
adaptation in the output spike trains of the cell, indicating that
mechanisms intrinsic to the ganglion cell contributed. Indeed, when
fluctuating currents were injected into a ganglion cell, the
sensitivity of spike generation decreased with increased current
variance. Pharmacological experiments indicated that adaptation of
spike generation to the current variance was attributable to properties
of tetrodotoxin-sensitive Na+ channels.
Key words:
contrast gain control; contrast adaptation; retinal
ganglion cell; adaptation; temporal contrast; retinal signal
processing; nonlinear; contrast response
Copyright © 2001 Society for Neuroscience 0270-6474/01/211287-13$05.00/0
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