Spread of activation and desensitisation in rod outer segments.

Abstract:

:Visual transduction in vertebrate photoreceptors is thought to involve a diffusible internal transmitter which links photon absorption in disk membranes to the conductance decrease in the plasma membrane of the outer segment. The desensitisation of the photoresponse which occurs during and after illumination may also involve a diffusible substance, because a photon absorbed in one disk can desensitise the cell's response to a subsequent photon absorbed in a different disk. Although both activation and desensitisation spread longitudinally from the site of photon absorption, neither spreads over the entire length of the outer segment. We report here experiments which indicate that, with dim illumination, both effects decline to be half-maximal in less than 8 micrometers from the site of light absorption.

journal_name

Nature

journal_title

Nature

authors

McNaughton PA,Yau KW,Lamb TD

doi

10.1038/283085a0

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1980-01-03 00:00:00

pages

85-7

issue

5742

eissn

0028-0836

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1476-4687

journal_volume

283

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