Amplification and latency in photoreceptors: integrated or separated phenomena?

Abstract:

:It is shown that the models for the transduction process in photoreceptors which treat latency and amplification as integrated phenomena ("integrated models") yield time scales for single photon signals ("quantum bumps") which distinctly conflict with the experimentally observed ones for the ventral nerve photoreceptor of Limulus: the ratio of bump duration/latency tB/tlat is predicted by integrated models to be approximately 3 in contrast to the experimental result of approximately 0.5. Moreover, integrated models lead to a predicted value of an extinction rate of approximately 50%, i.e., 50% of the absorbed photons should be expected to cause no signal in the dark adapted state of the cell. In this paper it is shown that separation of latency and amplification in such a way that the latency causing process precedes amplification in the transduction process eliminates these discrepancies. In addition, the separate modeling of latency and amplification resolves the rather large ambiguity in determining the exponent n of the initial signal current J(t) approximately tn reported in the literature to be between n approximately 2 (from noise analysis) up to n approximately 17 (from flash experiments). Two alternative models for the latency part of transduction are suggested which give a qualitatively much better agreement with the experimental histograms of latencies.

journal_name

Biol Cybern

journal_title

Biological cybernetics

authors

Schnakenberg J

doi

10.1007/BF00204697

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1989-01-01 00:00:00

pages

421-30

issue

6

eissn

0340-1200

issn

1432-0770

journal_volume

60

pub_type

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