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Photoreceptor topography and cone-specific electroretinograms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 April 2005

I.J. MURRAY ,
N.R.A. PARRY ,
J. KREMERS ,
M. STEPIEN  and
A. SCHILD
I.J. MURRAY
Affiliation:
Visual Sciences Laboratory, Department of Optometry and Neuroscience, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, Manchester, UK
N.R.A. PARRY
Affiliation:
Visual Sciences Centre, Manchester Royal Eye Hospital, Oxford Rd, Manchester, UK
J. KREMERS
Affiliation:
Department of Visual Pathophysiology, University of Tubingen, Tubingen, Germany
M. STEPIEN
Affiliation:
Department of Visual Pathophysiology, University of Tubingen, Tubingen, Germany
A. SCHILD
Affiliation:
Department of Visual Pathophysiology, University of Tubingen, Tubingen, Germany
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Abstract

It is implicit in many cone-specific ERG studies that the amplitude is proportional to the numbers of cones stimulated. The objective of these experiments was to test this idea by comparing ERGs obtained from different areas of the retina with histological data on cone-density distributions. The histology (Curcio et al., 1990) shows that the cumulative number of cones in the human retina increases exponentially with stimulus diameter between 0- and 40-deg eccentricity. L-, M-, and (L+M) cone-driven 30-Hz ERGs were obtained from a series of stimuli with one of the following configurations: (1) Circular stimuli of different angular subtense up to 70-deg diameter. (2) Annuli with 70-deg outer diameter but variable inner diameter. (3) Annuli of constant area but increasing eccentricity. Cone contrasts were equalized for each stimulus condition. The modulated and nonmodulated regions of the screen had the same mean hue and luminance. The data suggest that the L+M cone ERG amplitude increases with stimulus diameter in direct proportion to the estimated number of cones stimulated. Furthermore, the total L+M responses appear to be predicted from individual L and M responses by simple linear summation for both the disc and annular stimuli.

Keywords

ElectroretinogramCone-specificTopography
Type
Research Article
Information
Visual Neuroscience , Volume 21 , Issue 3 , May 2004 , pp. 231 - 235
Copyright
© 2004 Cambridge University Press

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