Common features of light-evoked amacrine cell responses in vertebrate retina.
The light-evoked electrical responses of a large number of amacrine cells in the roach retina have been observed by intracellular recording. Examination of response profiles suggests that amacrine cell responses possess a number of common features: combinations of sustained and transient components, light-dependent membrane noise and oscillations, afterpotentials. From these and other observations taken together, a unified view of light-evoked amacrine cell responses is presented, whereby response profiles are thought to reflect synaptic organizations rather than differences in inherent membrane properties.
D000818:Animals; D003530:Cyprinidae / Q000502:physiology*; D005074:Evoked Potentials, Visual; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D009474:Neurons / Q000166:cytology / Q000502:physiology; D012160:Retina / Q000166:cytology / Q000502:physiology*; D014785:Vision, Ocular / Q000502:physiology*