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Effects of light stimuli on the release of dopamine from interplexiform cells in the white perch retina

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 June 2009

Osamu Umino ,
Yunhee Lee  and
John E. Dowling
Osamu Umino
Affiliation:
Department of Cellular and Developmental Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge
Yunhee Lee
Affiliation:
Department of Cellular and Developmental Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge
John E. Dowling
Affiliation:
Department of Cellular and Developmental Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge
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Abstract

Interplexiform cells are centrifugal neurons in the retina carrying information from the inner to the outer plexiform layers. In teleost fish, interplexiform cells appear to release dopamine in the outer plexiform layer after prolonged darkness that modulates the receptive-field size and light responsiveness of horizontal cells (Mangel & Dowling, 1985; Yang et al., 1988a, b). It has been proposed that interplexiform cells may also release dopamine upon steady illumination because horizontal cells' receptive fields shrink in the light (Shigematsu & Yamada, 1988). Here, we report the shrinkage of the receptive fields of horizontal cells seen in the presence of background illumination is not blocked by dopamine antagonists, indicating that dopamine does not underlie the receptive-field size changes observed during steady illumination. Flickering light, however, does appear to stimulate the release of dopamine from the interplexiform cells, resulting in a marked reduction of horizontal cell receptive-field size. Taken together, experiments on horizontal cells indicate that dopamine is released from interplexiform cells in the teleost retina after prolonged darkness and during flickering light, but that dopamine release from interplexiform cells during steady retinal illumination is minimal.

Keywords

Horizontal cellsReceptive-field sizeLight and dark adaptationFlickering stimuli
Type
Research Articles
Information
Visual Neuroscience , Volume 7 , Issue 5 , November 1991 , pp. 451 - 458
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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