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Cobalt ions inhibit negative feedback in the outer retina by blocking hemichannels on horizontal cells

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2004

I. FAHRENFORT ,
T. SJOERDSMA ,
H. RIPPS  and
M. KAMERMANS
I. FAHRENFORT
Affiliation:
Research Unit Retinal Signal Processing, The Netherlands Ophthalmic Research Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
T. SJOERDSMA
Affiliation:
Research Unit Retinal Signal Processing, The Netherlands Ophthalmic Research Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
H. RIPPS
Affiliation:
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago
M. KAMERMANS
Affiliation:
Research Unit Retinal Signal Processing, The Netherlands Ophthalmic Research Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Abstract

In goldfish, negative feedback from horizontal cells to cones shifts the activation function of the Ca2+ current of the cones to more negative potentials. This shift increases the amount of Ca2+ flowing into the cones, resulting in an increase in glutamate release. The increased glutamate release forms the basis of the feedback-mediated responses in second-order neurons, such as the surround-induced responses of bipolar cells and the spectral coding of horizontal cells. Low concentrations of Co2+ block these feedback-mediated responses in turtle retina. The mechanism by which this is accomplished is unknown. We studied the effects of Co2+ on the cone/horizontal network of goldfish retina and found that Co2+ greatly reduced the feedback-mediated responses in both cones and horizontal cells in a GABA-independent way. The reduction of the feedback-mediated responses is accompanied by a small shift of the Ca2+ current of the cones to positive potentials. We have previously shown that hemichannels on the tips of the horizontal cell dendrites are involved in the modulation of the Ca2+ current in cones. Both the absence of this Co2+-induced shift of the Ca2+ current in the absence of a hemichannel conductance and the sensitivity of Cx26 hemichannels to low concentrations of Co2+ are consistent with a role for hemichannels in negative feedback from horizontal cells to cones.

Keywords

Negative feedbackConesHorizontal cellsHemichannelsGABACo2+
Type
Research Article
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Visual Neuroscience , Volume 21 , Issue 4 , July 2004 , pp. 501 - 511
Copyright
2004 Cambridge University Press

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