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Shinji Ueno1, Mineo Kondo, Makiko Ueno
1Department of Ophthalmology, Nagoya University School of Medicine, Showa-ku, Japan. ueno@med.nagoya-u.ac.jp
Abstract:
The purpose of this study was to determine the contribution of different types of retinal neurons to the d-wave of the primate electroretinogram using pharmacological agents. NMDA + TTX was used to suppress inner retinal activity, and APB and PDA to block the activity of the ON- and OFF-pathways, respectively. Results indicated that the inner retinal neurons had a small but certain contribution to the d-wave. The initial rapid phase of the d-wave originates from the activity of the cone OFF-pathway nearly exclusively, and the later slow phase is shaped by the cone photoreceptors. The cone ON-pathway acts in a direction opposite to that of the other components.
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