Sensory synapses of the visual and auditory systems must faithfully encode a wide dynamic
range of graded signals, and must be capable of sustained transmitter release over long …

We survey the evidence for L-glutamate's role as the primary excitatory neurotransmitter of
vertebrate retinas. The physiological and molecular properties of glutamate receptors in the …

In this review we describe some of the remarkable and intricate mechanisms through which
the calcium ion (Ca 2+) contributes to detection, transduction and synaptic transfer of light …

A “reduced retina” preparation, consisting of the photoreceptor layer attached to the pigment
epithelium in the eyecup, was used to study the pharmacology of the calcium channels …

The primary receptor neurons of the auditory, vestibular, and visual systems encode a broad
range of sensory information by modulating the tonic release of the neurotransmitter …

We investigated the role of caffeine-sensitive intracellular stores in regulating intracellular
calcium ([Ca2+] i) and glutamatergic synaptic transmission from rod photoreceptors …

We studied the responses of rod photoreceptors that were elicited with light flashes or
sinusoidally modulated light by using intracellular recording. Dark‐adapted Xenopus rod …

The retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) is separated from the photoreceptor outer segments by
the subretinal space. While the actual volume of this space is minimal, the communication …

We related rod to horizontal cell synaptic transfer to glutamate release by rods.
Simultaneous intracellular records were obtained from dark-adapted rod–horizontal cell …

The present study uses cell-attached patch-recording techniques to study the single-channel
properties of Ca2+ channels in isolated salamander photoreceptors and investigate their …