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Retina: OPL Flashcards

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1
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What are the 2 synaptic layers in the retina?

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  • Outer plexiform layer

- Inner plexiform layer

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What does the outer plexiform layer contain?

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contains the synaptic endings of rods (spherules) and cones (pedicles)
-these synapse mainly with horizontal and bipolar cells

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What is the rod synaptic ending?

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  • is smaller and spherical
  • one invagination
  • known as spherules
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What is the cone synaptic ending?

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  • synaptic region of cone is quite big
  • several invaginations
  • known as pedicle
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What is the main characterisitc of cone pedicle ?

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-full of vesicles (vesicles of the neurotransmitter)

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What does each pedicle contain?

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  • Each pedicle contains ca. 25 invaginations
  • each of which is associated with a synaptic ribbon
  • these synaptic ribbon are associated with the halo vesicle
  • contains 3 synpases
  • bigger than rods synaptic ending
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What do the synaptic ribbon do?

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that may serve to guide vesicles to their site of release

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What is each invagination associated with?

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-Each invagination is also associated with a ‘triad’

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What is a triad?

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3 post synaptic processes

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What do the lateral elements of a triad are provided?

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come from horizontal cells

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What do the central elements of a triad are provided by?

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the less deeply invaginating central element comes from a bipolar cell

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What does a electron micrograph of a cone pedicle show?

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invaginations (i.e2) and associated ‘triads’ (others are out of plane of section)

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What does a cone pedicle make contact with?

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  • triads made up of 2 lateral elements from horizontal
    cells and central element from bipolar cells

however not all post synaptic processes on pedicles are triads.

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What are other post synaptic contacts that dont associate with cone pedicle?

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There are about 500 superficial (non-invaginating) contacts which come from bipolar cells in each cone

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What are the synapses in the triad of cone pedicles?

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have horizontal cells and bipolar cells

and then superficial contact with bipolar cells

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What is the final contact a cone pedicle makes?

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  • with neighbouring cone pedicles and rod spherules via ‘telodendria’. - where they contact adjacent photoreceptors (rods and cones) via electrical synapses
  • cones are able to influence surrounding photoreceptors via telodendria
  • These are electrical ‘gap’ junctions
17
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What is the principal of uni-variance?

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photoreceptor only responded to light falling directly on that photoreceptor
-however now know this is not so, and that receptors can interact and neighbouring cones can facilitate the response of their neighbours

18
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What can Photoreceptors can influence ?

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the electrophysiological response of neighbouring receptors.

19
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How can we illustrate that receptors can interact and neighbouring cones can facilitate response of their neighbours ?

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  • cones
  • put electrode in one cone
  • shine small spot of light
  • get a given hyper-polarisation
  • if principle invariance was true in cones- if we stimulated retina with bigger spot- the size of response should be the same-would give the same response to a large and a small spot.
  • however that is not true
  • a big spot gives a much physiological/ larger response, and that can be explained by neighbouring cones must have an excitatory input (they facilitate response of photoreceptor).
20
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How are excitatory interactions between photoreceptors ?

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-between photoreceptors are mediated by telodendria

21
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Summary of cone pedicle synaptic contacts?

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  1. ca. 25 invaginations each associated with a ‘triad’ from horizontal and bipolar cells
  2. ca. 500 superficial contacts from bipolar cells
  3. with 6-15 neighbouring photoreceptors via telodendria
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What are the rod spherules

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  • only have a single (1) invagination containing 2-7 postsynaptic processes so dont form triad like they do in cone pedicles.
  • the lateral elements come from horizontal cells and the central processes from bipolar cells.
23
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What do the horizontal cells synapse with ?

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photoreceptors and bipolar cells in the OPL

24
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What do Horizontal cells have?

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a single long thin axon (which may be too thin to conduct)

25
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What are the 3 types of horizontal cells ?

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There are 3 types in the human retina;

  • H1 & H3 their dendrites contact only cones while axons synapse with rods (H3 bigger)
  • H2 dendrites and axons synapse only with cones
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What does a single horizontal cell contact in the central retina in cones?

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A single horizontal cell contacts 6-12 cones in the central retina.

27
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What about a single horizontal cell synapse with rods?

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  • one horizontal cell synapses with 350-500 rods.

- There is a lot of convergence in the rod pathway.

28
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What do the golgi staining of flat mounted retinae show ?

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how horizontal cells are ideally suited for mediating lateral interactions in the OPL
-ideally suited to mediate lateral interactions in the retina

29
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How is the lateral interactions mediated in the retina via horizontal cells via an illustration ?

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  • cones that are distant from each other inhibit eachother
    -If a hyperpolarising current is injected into a cone, a depolarising current can be recorded from a more distant one
    -if we stimulate a cone with a small hyoerolarising current, you stimulate horizontal cell, which will take the info laterally and synapse with a more distant cone and then will inhibit that other cone cone on the right
    -so response you get in distant cone is the opposite of the current you injected on the right
    = this cone excites horizontal cell and the other cone inhibits
30
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What are horizontal cells responsible for?

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for lateral interaction which enable one cone to inhibit a distant cone.
-helps increase contrast of adjacent objects

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