Light-evoked voltage responses of rod and cone photoreceptor cells in the vertebrate retina
must be converted to a train of synaptic vesicle release events for transmission to …

The first synapses transmitting visual information contain an unusual organelle, the ribbon,
which is involved in the transport and priming of vesicles to be released at the active zone …

At the first synapse in the vertebrate visual pathway, light-evoked changes in photoreceptor
membrane potential alter the rate of glutamate release onto second-order retinal neurons …

Photoreceptors have depolarized resting potentials that stimulate calcium‐dependent
release continuously from a large vesicle pool but neurons can also release vesicles without …

Rod photoreceptors (PRs) use ribbon synapses to transmit visual information. To signal 'no
light detected'they release glutamate continually to activate post-synaptic receptors. When …

The vertebrate visual system can detect and transmit signals from single photons. To
understand how single-photon responses are transmitted, we characterized voltage …

The molecular organization of ribbon synapses in photoreceptors and ON bipolar cells is
reviewed in relation to the process of neurotransmitter release. The interactions between …

Differences in synaptic transmission between rod and cone photoreceptors contribute to
different response kinetics in rod‐versus cone‐dominated visual pathways. We examined …

Neurons that form ribbon-style synapses are specialized for continuous exocytosis. To this
end, their synaptic terminals contain numerous synaptic vesicles, some of which are ribbon …

Vesicle release from rod photoreceptors is regulated by Ca2+ entry through L-type channels
located near synaptic ribbons. We characterized sites and kinetics of vesicle release in …