Voltage-gated calcium and sodium currents of starburst amacrine cells in the rabbit retina

Visual Neuroscience
E D Cohen

Abstract

The voltage-gated calcium and sodium currents of starburst amacrine cells were examined in slices of the adult rabbit retina. ON-center starburst amacrine cells were targeted for whole-cell recording by prelabeling the retina with the nuclear dye 4'-6-diamidino-2-phenylindole hydrochloride (DAPI). Calcium currents were isolated using an external Ringer that contained tetrodotoxin to block sodium currents and barium to block potassium channels. When starburst amacrine cells were stepped to holding potentials positive to -50 mV, a series of voltage-dependent calcium currents were activated. The calcium current peaked at -10 mV. The calcium currents kinetics were mainly sustained in nature, showing only a small amount of slow inactivation. Nickel (100 microM), a T-type channel blocker, had no effect on the calcium current. Application of the L-type channel agonist BAY K8644 (1-2.5 microM) had small variable effects on the calcium current while the L-type channel antagonist nifedipine (10 microM) had no effect. However, addition of a reported N-type calcium channel antagonist, omega-conotoxin G6A (1 microM), blocked a large portion of the calcium current, as did a more nonselective antagonist, omega-conotoxin M7C (200 nM). Agatoxin...Continue Reading

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