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[Contributions of human rods and cones pathway to different components of oscillatory potentials in time and
Jiaman Dai1, Shiying Li2, Zhengqin Yin1
1Southwest Hospital, Southwest Eye Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing 400038, China.
Objective:
To investigate the contributions of human rods and cones pathway to different components of oscillatory potentials (OP) in time and frequency domain.
Methods:
Case-control study. Twenty subjects were divided into two groups, normal groups (NG) and cones pathway abnormal groups (CAG). All eyes were investigated by dark-adapted (DA) and light-adapted (LA) 3.0 ERG recommended by ISCEV. Data were output into the computer and processed and analyzed by the software Matlab7.0. First, to extract the OP by filter, then to get the frequency-amplitude relationship by FFT, after that the relationship was fitted by equations and lastly we statistic and analyze the parameters gotten from the equations.
Results:
Compared with normal group [(48.63 ± 4.29), (158.00 ± 32.75), (69.27 ± 30.31), (38.5 ± 15.28) µV], the amplitudes of the first two components of dark-adapted OP in the CAG [(4.12 ± 3.20), (71.25 ± 25.43), (48.96 ± 20.05), (36.84 ± 14.26) µV] were significant decreased (t = 16.68, 5.77, P < 0.01). Frequency domain of LA and DA OP in the two groups was comprised with two components (harmonic and subharmonic). Compared with normal group, harmonic components of CAG were dramatic decreased (t = 2.72, P < 0.05; Z = -2.24, P < 0.05). The value of subharmonic component in CAG was lowest in DA OP compared with NG (t = 4.20, P < 0.005).
Conclusions:
Cones and rods pathway all contributed to the DA and LA OP Cones pathway mainly contributes to the earlier and faster components of OP while the rods pathway to the later and slower components.
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