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The Journal of Neurophysiology Vol. 78 No. 6 December 1997,
pp. 2895-2903
Copyright ©1997 The American Physiological Society
1 Section of Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior and the Center for Neuroscience, University of California, Davis, California 95616; and 2 Istituto di Neurofisiologia, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, 56127 Pisa, Italy
Wang, Guo-Yong, G.-M. Ratto, Silvia Bisti, and Leo M. Chalupa. Functional development of intrinsic properties in ganglion cells of the mammalian retina. J. Neurophysiol. 78: 2895-2903, 1997. Sensory neurons manifest pronounced changes in excitability during maturation, but the factors contributing to this ubiquitous developmental phenomenon are not well understood. To assess the contribution of intrinsic membrane properties to such changes in excitability, in the present study whole cell patch-clamp recordings were made from developing ganglion cells in the intact retina of postnatal rats. During a relatively brief developmental period (postnatal days P7-P27) ganglion cells exhibited pronounced changes in the discharge patterns generated by depolarizing current injections. The youngest cells (P7-P17) typically responded to maintained depolarizations with only a single spike or a rapidly adapting discharge pattern. In contrast, the predominant response mode of more mature cells (P21-P27) was a series of repetitive discharges that lasted for the duration of the depolarization period, and by P25 all cells responded in this manner. These functional changes characterized all three morphologically defined cell classes identified by intracellular labeling with Lucifer yellow.
To determine if expression of the potassium current (Ia) and the kinetics of the Na-channel related to the increased excitability of developing ganglion cells described above, current- and voltage-clamp recordings were made from individual neurons. The different firing patterns manifested by developing retinal ganglion cells did not reflect the presence or absence of the Ia conductance, although cells expressing Ia tended to generate spikes of shorter duration. With maturation the speed of recovery from inactivation of the Na current increased markedly and this related to the increased excitability of developing ganglion cells. Neurons yielding only a single spike to maintained depolarization were characterized by the slowest speed of recovery; cells with rapidly adapting discharges showed a faster recovery and those capable of repetitive firing recovered fastest from Na-channel inactivation. It is suggested that these changes in intrinsic membrane properties may relate to the different functional roles subserved by ganglion cells during development.
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