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  • The effects of L-glutamate, AMPA, quisqualate, and kainate on retinal horizontal cells depend on adaptational state : implications for rod-cone interactions
    Križaj, David ; Akopian, Abram ; Witkovsky, Paul
    We studied the responses of isolated and intact luminosity-type horizontal cells (L-HC) in the Xenopus retina to L-glutamate (L-glu) and its analogs. Isolated L-HCs studied with whole-cell patch ... clamp responded to L-glu, kainate(KA), AMPA, or quisqualate (quis) with inward currents from a holding potential of -60 mV, associated with a conductance increase. The current elicited by KA was relatively large and sustained, whereas AMPA or quis evokeda desensitizing current. Coapplication of quis and KA resulted in a smaller current and conductance change than that evoked by a pulse of either alone at the same concentration. This finding suggests that the L-HC has a single subtype of glutamate receptor that responds to both quis and KA. Prior exposure to dopamine enhanced the KA-evoked current about twofold. In the superfused eyecup we found that L-HC responses to quinoxalinediones (CNQX or DNQX) and to L-glu, KA, AMPA, and quis varied as a function of adaptational state. When driven exclusively by either cones or by rods, CNQX/DNQX hyperpolarized the L-HC and reduced its light response, without altering response kinetics, indicating that both rods and cones communicate with L-HCsat ionotropic glutamatergic synapses. Under mesopic conditions, however, as CNQX or DNQX reduced cone input, the rod input to the L-HC increased up to fivefold in magnitude and had slowed kinetics. The depolarizing response of the L-HC to L-glu, AMPA, or quis was relatively small and transient under photopic conditions, but was much larger and sustained when the eyecup was dark adapted. The D1 dopamine antagonist SCH 23390 potentiated the response toquis. In contrast, responses to KA were largest in light-adapted eyecups, were potentiated by a D1 dopamine agonist, SKF 38393, and were reduced by SCH 23390. (Abs. trunc. at 2000 ch.)
    Vir: The Journal of neuroscience. - ISSN 0270-6474 (Letn. 14, št. 9, 1994, str. 5661-5671)
    Vrsta gradiva - članek, sestavni del
    Leto - 1994
    Jezik - angleški
    COBISS.SI-ID - 27527129

vir: The Journal of neuroscience. - ISSN 0270-6474 (Letn. 14, št. 9, 1994, str. 5661-5671)
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