title: Modelling and simulation of vertebrate retina.
abstract: In the present work we investigate the neuronal activities in a vertebrate retina by modelling and simulations using the results of (Oğuztöreli, 1979). The basic retinal network considered here consists of interconnected five neurons: a receptor cell (rod or cone), a horizontal cell, a bipolar cell, an amacrine cell, and a retinal ganglion cell. The mathematical model for the basic network is a system of nonlinear ordinary integral differential difference equations. A number of simulations describing the dynamics of the neural activities in the basic network under different conditions are presented, actual and steady-state solutions are discussed. An algorithm is proposed for the determination of the system parameters experimentally.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D008959:Models, Neurological; D009431:Neural Conduction; D009433:Neural Inhibition; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology; D010786:Photoreceptor Cells / Q000502:physiology; D012160:Retina / Q000166:cytology / Q000502:physiology*; D014714:Vertebrates / Q000502:physiology*; D014785:Vision, Ocular / Q000502:physiology*; D014795:Visual Pathways / Q000502:physiology