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Science 19 May 1995:
Vol. 268. no. 5213, pp. 1053 - 1056
DOI: 10.1126/science.7754386
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Science, Vol 268, Issue 5213, 1053-1056
Copyright © 1995 by American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Photovoltage of rods and cones in the macaque retina

DM Schneeweis and JL Schnapf

Department of Ophthalmology, University of California, San Francisco 94143-0730, USA.

The kinetics, gain, and reliability of light responses of rod and cone photoreceptors are important determinants of overall visual sensitivity. In voltage recordings from photoreceptors in an intact primate retina, rods were found to be functionally isolated from each other, unlike the tightly coupled rods of cold-blooded vertebrates. Cones were observed to receive excitatory input from rods, which indicates that the cone pathway also processes rod signals. This input might be expected to degrade the spatial resolution of mesopic vision.


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