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J Neurophysiol 81: 1412-1417, 1999;
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The Journal of Neurophysiology Vol. 81 No. 3 March 1999, pp. 1412-1417
Copyright ©1999 by the American Physiological Society

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Action Potentials in the Dendrites of Retinal Ganglion Cells

Toby J. Velte and Richard H. Masland

Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114

Velte, Toby J. and Richard H. Masland. Action potentials in the dendrites of retinal ganglion cells. The somas and dendrites of intact retinal ganglion cells were exposed by enzymatic removal of the overlying endfeet of the Müller glia. Simultaneous whole cell patch recordings were made from a ganglion cell's dendrite and the cell's soma. When a dendrite was stimulated with depolarizing current, impulses often propagated to the soma, where they appeared as a mixture of small depolarizations and action potentials. When the soma was stimulated, action potentials always propagated back through the dendrite. The site of initiation of action potentials, as judged by their timing, could be shifted between soma and dendrite by changing the site of stimulation. Applying QX-314 to the soma could eliminate somatic action potentials while leaving dendritic impulses intact. The absolute amplitudes of the dendritic action potentials varied somewhat at different distances from the soma, and it is not clear whether these variations are real or technical. Nonetheless, the qualitative experiments clearly suggest that the dendrites of retinal ganglion cells generate regenerative Na+ action potentials, at least in response to large direct depolarizations.




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