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J Neurophysiol 80: 2571-2583, 1998;
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The Journal of Neurophysiology Vol. 80 No. 5 November 1998, pp. 2571-2583
Copyright ©1998 The American Physiological Society

Two-Channel Polarization Analyzer in the Sustaining Fiber-Dimming Fiber Ensemble of Crayfish Visual System

Raymon M. Glantz and Andy McIsaac

Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005

Glantz, Raymon M. and Andy McIsaac. Two-channel polarization analyzer in the sustaining fiber-dimming fiber ensemble of crayfish visual system. J. Neurophysiol. 80: 2571-2583, 1998. Polarization sensitivity (PS) was examined in two classes of neurons, sustaining fibers and dimming fibers, in the medulla externa (second optic neuropile) of the crayfish, Pacifasticus leniusculus. Visual responses were recorded intracellularly and extracellularly. The influence of e-vector orientation (theta ) was probed in steady-state responses, with brief flashes and with a rotating polarizer. The results indicate that the entire sustaining fiber population appears to be maximally sensitive to vertically polarized light. Although the evidence is less complete for dimming fibers, they appear to be maximally inhibited by vertically polarized light and excited by horizontally polarized light. Thus the sustaining fibers and dimming fibers form a two-channel polarization analyzer that captures the main features of the polarization system established in photoreceptors and lamina monopolar cells. The available evidence suggests that this two-channel system has the same characteristics across most or all of the retinula. Lateral inhibition in sustaining fibers is differentially sensitive to theta . Inhibition is substantial at theta  = 90° (horizontal) and essentially absent at theta  = 0°. The details of the sustaining fiber polarization response closely follow features established in more peripheral neurons, including the magnitude of PS, enhanced responsiveness to a changing e-vector, and modest directionality to a changing e-vector in~40% of the cells.




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