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<div class="pre-content"><div><div class="bk_prnt"><p class="small">NCBI Bookshelf. A service of the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health.</p><p>Kolb H, Fernandez E, Jones B, et al., editors. Webvision: The Organization of the Retina and Visual System [Internet]. Salt Lake City (UT): University of Utah Health Sciences Center; 1995-. </p></div><div class="iconblock clearfix whole_rhythm no_top_margin bk_noprnt"><a class="img_link icnblk_img" title="Table of Contents Page" href="/books/n/webvision/"><img class="source-thumb" src="/corehtml/pmc/pmcgifs/bookshelf/thumbs/th-webvision-lrg.png" alt="Cover of Webvision" height="100px" width="80px" /></a><div class="icnblk_cntnt eight_col"><h2>Webvision: The Organization of the Retina and Visual System [Internet].</h2><a data-jig="ncbitoggler" href="#__NBK11522_dtls__">Show details</a><div style="display:none" class="ui-widget" id="__NBK11522_dtls__"><div>Kolb H, Fernandez E, Jones B, et al., editors.</div><div>Salt Lake City (UT): <a href="http://webvision.med.utah.edu/" ref="pagearea=page-banner&targetsite=external&targetcat=link&targettype=publisher">University of Utah Health Sciences Center</a>; 1995-.</div></div><div class="half_rhythm"><ul class="inline_list"><li style="margin-right:1em"><a class="bk_cntns" href="/books/n/webvision/">Contents</a></li></ul></div><div class="bk_noprnt"><form method="get" action="/books/n/webvision/" id="bk_srch"><div class="bk_search"><label for="bk_term" class="offscreen_noflow">Search term</label><input type="text" title="Search this book" id="bk_term" name="term" value="" data-jig="ncbiclearbutton" /> <input type="submit" class="jig-ncbibutton" value="Search this book" submit="false" style="padding: 0.1em 0.4em;" /></div></form></div></div><div class="icnblk_cntnt two_col"><div class="pagination bk_noprnt"><a class="active page_link prev" href="/books/n/webvision/StraussRPE/" title="Previous page in this title">< Prev</a><a class="active page_link next" href="/books/n/webvision/A207/" title="Next page in this title">Next ></a></div></div></div></div></div>
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<div class="main-content lit-style" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/CreativeWork"><div class="meta-content fm-sec"><h1 id="_NBK11522_"><span class="title" itemprop="name">Photoreceptors</span></h1><p class="contrib-group"><span itemprop="author">Helga Kolb</span>, PhD.</p><a data-jig="ncbitoggler" href="#__NBK11522_ai__" style="border:0;text-decoration:none">Author Information and Affiliations</a><div style="display:none" class="ui-widget" id="__NBK11522_ai__"><p class="contrib-group"><h4>Authors</h4><span itemprop="author">Helga Kolb</span>, PhD<sup><img src="/corehtml/pmc/pmcgifs/corrauth.gif" alt="corresponding author" /></sup><sup>1</sup>.</p><h4>Affiliations</h4><div class="affiliation"><sup>1</sup> Moran Eye Institute, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City<div><span class="email-label">Email: </span><a href="mailto:dev@null" data-email="ude.hatu.csh@blok.agleH" class="oemail">ude.hatu.csh@blok.agleH</a></div></div><div><sup><img src="/corehtml/pmc/pmcgifs/corrauth.gif" alt="corresponding author" /></sup>Corresponding author.</div></div><p class="small">Created: <span itemprop="datePublished">May 1, 2005</span>.</p></div><div class="jig-ncbiinpagenav body-content whole_rhythm" data-jigconfig="allHeadingLevels: ['h2'],smoothScroll: false" itemprop="text"><p>Two or three types of cone photoreceptor and a single type of rod photoreceptor are present in the normal mammalian retina. Some non-mammalian retinas have even more cone types (see later).</p><div id="A112.sec1"><h2 id="_A112_sec1_">1. Light microscopy and ultrastructure of rods and cones.</h2><p>In vertical sections of retina prepared for light microscopy with the rods and cones nicely aligned, the rods and cones can be distinguished rather easily.</p><div id="A112.F1b" class="figure bk_fig"><div class="graphic"><img src="/books/NBK11522/bin/A112-Image001.jpg" alt="Fig1b. " /></div><h3><span class="label">Fig1b. </span></h3><div class="caption"><p>Scanning electron micrograph of the rods and cones of the primate retina</p></div></div><p>Cones are robust conical-shaped structures that have their cell bodies situated in a single row right below the outer limiting membrane (OLM) and their inner and outer segments protruding into the subretinal space towards the pigment epithelium (<a class="figpopup" href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F1a/?report=objectonly" target="object" rid-figpopup="figA112F1a" rid-ob="figobA112F1a">Figs. 1</a> and <a class="figpopup" href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F2/?report=objectonly" target="object" rid-figpopup="figA112F2" rid-ob="figobA112F2">2</a>). In foveal retina, where only cones are concentrated, their cell bodies are layered in oblique columns below the outer limiting membrane. Rods, on the other hand, are slim rod-shaped structures with their inner and outer segments filling the area between the larger cones in the subretinal space and stretching to the pigment epithelium cells. Rod cell bodies make up the remainder of the outer nuclear layer below the cone cell bodies. Apical processes from the pigment epithelium envelope the outer segments of both rods and cones (not always clear in histological sections). The higher magnification afforded by the electron microscope allows better resolution of rod and cone photoreceptors.</p><div class="iconblock whole_rhythm clearfix ten_col fig" id="figA112F1a" co-legend-rid="figlgndA112F1a"><a href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F1a/?report=objectonly" target="object" title="Fig. 1a. " class="img_link icnblk_img figpopup" rid-figpopup="figA112F1a" rid-ob="figobA112F1a"><img class="small-thumb" src="/books/NBK11522/bin/A112-Image006.gif" src-large="/books/NBK11522/bin/A112-Image006.jpg" alt="Fig. 1a. " /></a><div class="icnblk_cntnt" id="figlgndA112F1a"><h4 id="A112.F1a"><a href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F1a/?report=objectonly" target="object" rid-ob="figobA112F1a">Fig. 1a. </a></h4><p class="float-caption no_bottom_margin">Semithin section of human outer retina to show the rods and cones </p></div></div><div class="iconblock whole_rhythm clearfix ten_col fig" id="figA112F2" co-legend-rid="figlgndA112F2"><a href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F2/?report=objectonly" target="object" title="Fig 2. " class="img_link icnblk_img figpopup" rid-figpopup="figA112F2" rid-ob="figobA112F2"><img class="small-thumb" src="/books/NBK11522/bin/A112-Image007.gif" src-large="/books/NBK11522/bin/A112-Image007.jpg" alt="Fig 2. " /></a><div class="icnblk_cntnt" id="figlgndA112F2"><h4 id="A112.F2"><a href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F2/?report=objectonly" target="object" rid-ob="figobA112F2">Fig 2. </a></h4><p class="float-caption no_bottom_margin">Low magnification EM image of monkey rods and cones </p></div></div><p>Ultrathin sections viewed in an electron microscope (<a class="figpopup" href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F2/?report=objectonly" target="object" rid-figpopup="figA112F2" rid-ob="figobA112F2">Figs. 2</a> and <a class="figpopup" href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F3/?report=objectonly" target="object" rid-figpopup="figA112F3" rid-ob="figobA112F3">3</a>) show rods and cones from human and squirrel retinas (<a class="bk_pop" href="#A112.REF.anderson.1976.119">Anderson and Fisher, 1976</a>). The photoreceptor consists of 1) an outer segment, filled with stacks of membranes (like a stack of poker chips) containing the visual pigment molecules such as rhodopsins, 2) an inner segment containing mitochondria, ribosomes and membranes where opsin molecules are assembled and passed to be part of the outer segment discs, 3) a cell body containing the nucleus of the photoreceptor cell and 4) a synaptic terminal where neurotransmission to second order neurons occurs.</p><div class="iconblock whole_rhythm clearfix ten_col fig" id="figA112F3" co-legend-rid="figlgndA112F3"><a href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F3/?report=objectonly" target="object" title="Fig. 3. " class="img_link icnblk_img figpopup" rid-figpopup="figA112F3" rid-ob="figobA112F3"><img class="small-thumb" src="/books/NBK11522/bin/A112-Image008.gif" src-large="/books/NBK11522/bin/A112-Image008.jpg" alt="Fig. 3. 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</p><p>Outer and inner segments of rods (i.s.) are generally thinner than those of cones in mammalian retinas. For example, the rod inner segments are 2 microns and the cone’s about 6 microns in diameter in peripheral human retina. <b>In the fovea,</b> however, where there are <b>only cone</b> photoreceptors, the most central cones are even thinner than the average rod at about 1.5 microns diameter. Inner segment regions of both rods and cones are filled with long thin mitochondria. At the top of the inner segment a thin cilium joins the inner and outer segments of the rods and cones (<a class="figpopup" href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F3/?report=objectonly" target="object" rid-figpopup="figA112F3" rid-ob="figobA112F3">Fig. 3</a> and see movie).</p></div><div id="A112.sec2"><h2 id="_A112_sec2_">2. Outer segment generation.</h2><p>It is from the base of the cilium that membrane evaginations and invaginations occur to produce the outer segment (o.s.) or the important visual pigment-bearing portion of the photoreceptor. Outer segments of both the rods and cones arises from outpouching (a, <a class="figpopup" href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F5/?report=objectonly" target="object" rid-figpopup="figA112F5" rid-ob="figobA112F5">Fig. 5</a> below) of the photoreceptor cell plasma membrane at this point (see below) (<a class="bk_pop" href="#A112.REF.steinberg.1980.501">Steinberg et al., 1980</a>).</p><div class="iconblock whole_rhythm clearfix ten_col fig" id="figA112F5" co-legend-rid="figlgndA112F5"><a href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F5/?report=objectonly" target="object" title="Fig. 5. " class="img_link icnblk_img figpopup" rid-figpopup="figA112F5" rid-ob="figobA112F5"><img class="small-thumb" src="/books/NBK11522/bin/A112-Image009.gif" src-large="/books/NBK11522/bin/A112-Image009.jpg" alt="Fig. 5. " /></a><div class="icnblk_cntnt" id="figlgndA112F5"><h4 id="A112.F5"><a href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F5/?report=objectonly" target="object" rid-ob="figobA112F5">Fig. 5. </a></h4><p class="float-caption no_bottom_margin">Diagram of outer segment generation </p></div></div><div id="A112.F4" class="figure bk_fig"><div class="graphic"><img src="/books/NBK11522/bin/A112-Image003.jpg" alt="Fig 4. " /></div><h3><span class="label">Fig 4. </span></h3><div class="caption"><p>Photoreceptor outer segments are generated at the cilium (red arrows)</p></div></div><p>
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</p><p>These expanding membrane plates (b-c, <a class="figpopup" href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F5/?report=objectonly" target="object" rid-figpopup="figA112F5" rid-ob="figobA112F5">Fig. 5</a> above) become detached as free floating discs inside the outer segment membrane in the case of the rods. In the case of the cones though, the outer segment discs remain attached to the outer segment membrane.</p><p>So the outer segment is a structure filled entirely with discs of folded double membranes in which are embedded the light sensitive visual pigment molecules (<a class="figpopup" href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F6/?report=objectonly" target="object" rid-figpopup="figA112F6" rid-ob="figobA112F6">Fig. 6</a>).</p><div class="iconblock whole_rhythm clearfix ten_col fig" id="figA112F6" co-legend-rid="figlgndA112F6"><a href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F6/?report=objectonly" target="object" title="Fig. 6. " class="img_link icnblk_img figpopup" rid-figpopup="figA112F6" rid-ob="figobA112F6"><img class="small-thumb" src="/books/NBK11522/bin/A112-Image010.gif" src-large="/books/NBK11522/bin/A112-Image010.jpg" alt="Fig. 6. " /></a><div class="icnblk_cntnt" id="figlgndA112F6"><h4 id="A112.F6"><a href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F6/?report=objectonly" target="object" rid-ob="figobA112F6">Fig. 6. </a></h4><p class="float-caption no_bottom_margin">Drawing of rod outer segment discs </p></div></div><p>The opsin molecule, which binds the chromophore 11-cis retinal to form the visual pigment, is manufactured in the Golgi apparatus of the inner segment and presented to the outer membrane at the cilium, via fusion areas using G-proteins (<a class="bk_pop" href="#A112.REF.papermaster.1985">Papermaster et al., 1985</a>; <a class="bk_pop" href="#A112.REF.deretic.1995.249">Deretic and Papermaster, 1995</a>).</p><p>In contrast, the other part of the visual pigment molecule in the outer segment discs which is <b>retinal</b> (vitamin A product), is provided to the discs from the pigment epithelium via carrier molecules (retinal binding proteins, IRBP) in the interphotoreceptor matrix of the subretinal space (<a class="figpopup" href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F7/?report=objectonly" target="object" rid-figpopup="figA112F7" rid-ob="figobA112F7">Fig. 7</a>) (<a class="bk_pop" href="#A112.REF.adler.1982.1601">Adler and Martin, 1982</a>; <a class="bk_pop" href="#A112.REF.chader.1989">Chader, 1989</a>) and see chapter on retinal pigment epithelium by Olaf Strauss.</p><div class="iconblock whole_rhythm clearfix ten_col fig" id="figA112F7" co-legend-rid="figlgndA112F7"><a href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F7/?report=objectonly" target="object" title="Fig. 7. " class="img_link icnblk_img figpopup" rid-figpopup="figA112F7" rid-ob="figobA112F7"><img class="small-thumb" src="/books/NBK11522/bin/A112-Image011.gif" src-large="/books/NBK11522/bin/A112-Image011.jpg" alt="Fig. 7. " /></a><div class="icnblk_cntnt" id="figlgndA112F7"><h4 id="A112.F7"><a href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F7/?report=objectonly" target="object" rid-ob="figobA112F7">Fig. 7. </a></h4><p class="float-caption no_bottom_margin">Retinal binding proteins </p></div></div></div><div id="A112.sec3"><h2 id="_A112_sec3_">3. Visual pigments and visual transduction.</h2><p>Vertebrate photoreceptors can respond to light by virtue of their containing a visual pigment embedded in the bilipid membranous discs that make up the outer segment. The visual pigment consists of a protein called opsin and a chromophore derived from vitamin A known as retinal. The vitamin A is manufactured from beta-carotene in the food we eat, and the protein is manufactured in the photoreceptor cell (see above). The opsin and the chromophore are bound together and lie buried in the membranes of the outer segment discs (<a class="figpopup" href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F8/?report=objectonly" target="object" rid-figpopup="figA112F8" rid-ob="figobA112F8">Fig. 8</a>).</p><div class="iconblock whole_rhythm clearfix ten_col fig" id="figA112F8" co-legend-rid="figlgndA112F8"><a href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F8/?report=objectonly" target="object" title="Fig 8. " class="img_link icnblk_img figpopup" rid-figpopup="figA112F8" rid-ob="figobA112F8"><img class="small-thumb" src="/books/NBK11522/bin/A112-Image012.gif" src-large="/books/NBK11522/bin/A112-Image012.jpg" alt="Fig 8. " /></a><div class="icnblk_cntnt" id="figlgndA112F8"><h4 id="A112.F8"><a href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F8/?report=objectonly" target="object" rid-ob="figobA112F8">Fig 8. </a></h4><p class="float-caption no_bottom_margin">Schematic diagram of Rhodopsin in the outer segment discs </p></div></div><p>About 50% of the opsin is within the bilipid membrane connected by short protein loops outside. Each molecule of rhodopsin consists of seven of these transmembrane portions surrounding the chromophore (11-cis retinal) in the lipid bilayer (<a class="figpopup" href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F9/?report=objectonly" target="object" rid-figpopup="figA112F9" rid-ob="figobA112F9">Fig. 9</a>). The chromophore apparently lies horizontally in the membrane and is bound at a lysine residue to helix seven (<a class="bk_pop" href="#A112.REF.hargrave.1984.1487">Hargrave et al. 1984</a>, <a class="bk_pop" href="#A112.REF.hargrave.1992.49">Hargrave and McDowell, 1992</a>)(<a class="figpopup" href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F9/?report=objectonly" target="object" rid-figpopup="figA112F9" rid-ob="figobA112F9">Fig. 9</a>). Each outer segment disc, of course, contains many (thousands) visual pigment molecules. Upon absorption of a photon of light, the retinal isomerizes from the 11-cis form to an all-trans form which starts conformational changes in the molecule resulting in bleaching. Several intermediaries are formed in bleaching among them metarhodopsin II which activates the G-protein transducin and a further cascade of events summarized below (see review by <a class="bk_pop" href="#A112.REF.hargrave.1992.49">Hargrave and McDowell (1992)</a> and by <a class="bk_pop" href="#A112.REF.archer.1995">Archer, 1995</a>)and chapter by Yingbin Fu (webvision).</p><div class="iconblock whole_rhythm clearfix ten_col fig" id="figA112F9" co-legend-rid="figlgndA112F9"><a href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F9/?report=objectonly" target="object" title="Fig. 9. " class="img_link icnblk_img figpopup" rid-figpopup="figA112F9" rid-ob="figobA112F9"><img class="small-thumb" src="/books/NBK11522/bin/A112-Image013.gif" src-large="/books/NBK11522/bin/A112-Image013.jpg" alt="Fig. 9. " /></a><div class="icnblk_cntnt" id="figlgndA112F9"><h4 id="A112.F9"><a href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F9/?report=objectonly" target="object" rid-ob="figobA112F9">Fig. 9. </a></h4><p class="float-caption no_bottom_margin">Structural model of Rhodopsin showing seven transmembrane components and the attachment site for retinal </p></div></div><p>Light transduces the visual pigment via the following enzyme cascade: photons – rhodopsin – activated rhodopsin (metarhodopsin II) – a GTP binding protein (transducin) – an enzyme hydrolyzing cGMP (cGMP-phosphodiesterase) – closes a membrane bound cGMP-gated cation channel.</p><p>In the dark a steady current flows into the open channels, carried mainly by Na ions, constituting a “dark current” that partially depolarizes the photoreceptor cell (<a class="figpopup" href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F10/?report=objectonly" target="object" rid-figpopup="figA112F10" rid-ob="figobA112F10">Fig. 10</a>). Thus, the depolarized photoreceptor releases neurotransmitter (the amino acid glutamate) from its synaptic terminals upon second-order neurons in the dark. On light stimulation the rhodopsin molecules are isomerized to the active form, the above cascade ensues, leading to closure of the cation channels of the photoreceptor membrane, stopping the dark current and causing the photoreceptor cell membrane to hyperpolarize and cease neurotransmitter release to second-order neurons (<a class="figpopup" href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F10/?report=objectonly" target="object" rid-figpopup="figA112F10" rid-ob="figobA112F10">Fig. 10</a>) (see <a class="bk_pop" href="#A112.REF.stryer.1991.10711">Stryer, 1991</a>; <a class="bk_pop" href="#A112.REF.yau.1994">Yau, 1994</a>, and <a class="bk_pop" href="#A112.REF.kawamura.1995">Kawamura, 1995</a>, and Fu (webvision) for reviews).</p><div class="iconblock whole_rhythm clearfix ten_col fig" id="figA112F10" co-legend-rid="figlgndA112F10"><a href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F10/?report=objectonly" target="object" title="Fig. 10. 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</p><p>The “dark current” is composed mainly of the influx of the Na+ component (80%) however, a Ca2+ component (15%) and a Mg2+ component (5%) are also present (<a class="bk_pop" href="#A112.REF.yau.1994">Yau, 1994</a>). In darkness there must be a mechanism to remove Ca2+ as well as the excess Na+, and it is thought to be done so through a sodium/calcium exchanger in the membranes of the outer segment of the photoreceptor. Ca2+, once thought to be the second messenger in linking the rhodopsin photoisomerization to the membrane events is now known to have a secondary but important regulatory role in phototransduction. Although it does not directly participate in the transduction cascade it does improve the signalling capability of the rods in speeding the recovery after illumination and down regulating of the rods sensitivity in steady illumination (<a class="bk_pop" href="#A112.REF.yau.1994">Yau, 1994</a>). The latter effect is a mechanism for light adaptation.</p><p>For it must be remembered that a photoreceptor cell does not simply detect light. It can also adapt to environmental light. For example cone photoreceptors can adapt so that our visual system can see from the dim shadows under a tree to objects in bright sunlight snow, a shift of light intensity of 7-9 log units of light intensity (<a class="bk_pop" href="#A112.REF.normann.1991">Normann et al., 1991</a>). Rod photoreceptors, thought at one time not to light adapt, are now known to adapt over a range of 2 log units of background intensity and combined with a network adaptation through the whole visual system, allows as much as 5 log units of background intensity adaptation in rod driven vision (<a class="bk_pop" href="#A112.REF.yau.1994">Yau, 1994</a>).</p></div><div id="A112.sec4"><h2 id="_A112_sec4_">4. Phagocytosis of outer segments by pigment epithelium.</h2><p>The stacks of discs containing visual pigment molecules in the outer segments of the photoreceptors are constantly renewed. New discs are added at the base of the outer segment at the cilium as discussed above. At the same time old discs are displaced up the outer segment and are pinched off at the tips and engulfed by the apical processes of the pigment epithelium (<a class="figpopup" href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F11/?report=objectonly" target="object" rid-figpopup="figA112F11" rid-ob="figobA112F11">Figs. 11</a> and <a class="figpopup" href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F12/?report=objectonly" target="object" rid-figpopup="figA112F12" rid-ob="figobA112F12">12</a>). These discarded, spent discs become known as phagosomes in the pigment epithelial cells. They are then broken down by lysis. Photoreceptor outer segment discs are phagocytosed by the pigment epithelium in a diurnal cycle. There is a burst of disc shedding at light on in the morning, judged by increased numbers of phagosomes in the pigment epithelium shortly thereafter (<a class="bk_pop" href="#A112.REF.young.1971.303">Young 1971</a>).</p><div class="iconblock whole_rhythm clearfix ten_col fig" id="figA112F11" co-legend-rid="figlgndA112F11"><a href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F11/?report=objectonly" target="object" title="Fig. 11. " class="img_link icnblk_img figpopup" rid-figpopup="figA112F11" rid-ob="figobA112F11"><img class="small-thumb" src="/books/NBK11522/bin/A112-Image015.gif" src-large="/books/NBK11522/bin/A112-Image015.jpg" alt="Fig. 11. " /></a><div class="icnblk_cntnt" id="figlgndA112F11"><h4 id="A112.F11"><a href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F11/?report=objectonly" target="object" rid-ob="figobA112F11">Fig. 11. </a></h4><p class="float-caption no_bottom_margin">Section through an RPE cell to show stages of outer segment phagocytosis </p></div></div><div class="iconblock whole_rhythm clearfix ten_col fig" id="figA112F12" co-legend-rid="figlgndA112F12"><a href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F12/?report=objectonly" target="object" title="Fig. 12. " class="img_link icnblk_img figpopup" rid-figpopup="figA112F12" rid-ob="figobA112F12"><img class="small-thumb" src="/books/NBK11522/bin/A112-Image016.gif" src-large="/books/NBK11522/bin/A112-Image016.jpg" alt="Fig. 12. " /></a><div class="icnblk_cntnt" id="figlgndA112F12"><h4 id="A112.F12"><a href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F12/?report=objectonly" target="object" rid-ob="figobA112F12">Fig. 12. </a></h4><p class="float-caption no_bottom_margin">Diagrammatic representation of disc shedding and phagosome formation in the pigment epithelial cell </p></div></div><p>
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</p><p>Cone outer segments differ from rod outer segments in several respects. Firstly, they are shorter and more conical with a wider base and tapering shape compared with those of rods. Secondly, as mentioned above, their discs are connected to the plasma membrane throughout the extent of the outer segment, and thus they are open to extracellular space. Apical processes of the pigment epithelium phagocytize chunks of cone outer segments, just like they do the rod outer segments, but at a different time in the diurnal cycle compared with rods i.e. at light off-set compared light-onset (see original work by <a class="bk_pop" href="#A112.REF.young.1971.303">Young, 1971</a>, <a class="bk_pop" href="#A112.REF.young.1976.700">1976</a>; <a class="bk_pop" href="#A112.REF.lavail.1976.1071">LaVail, 1976</a>; <a class="bk_pop" href="#A112.REF.steinberg.1977.459">Steinberg et al., 1977</a>; reviewed by <a class="bk_pop" href="#A112.REF.besharse.1982.81">Besharse, 1982</a>).</p></div><div id="A112.sec5"><h2 id="_A112_sec5_">5. Different types of cone photoreceptor.</h2><p>As we have seen from the morphological appearances described above, two basic types of photoreceptor, rods and cones, exist in the vertebrate retina (<a class="figpopup" href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F13/?report=objectonly" target="object" rid-figpopup="figA112F13" rid-ob="figobA112F13">Fig. 13</a>). The rods are photoreceptors that contain the visual pigment – rhodopsin and are sensitive to blue-green light with a peak sensitivity around 500 nanometers (nm) wavelength of light (<a class="figpopup" href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F14a/?report=objectonly" target="object" rid-figpopup="figA112F14a" rid-ob="figobA112F14a">Fig. 14a</a>). Rods are highly sensitive photoreceptors and are used for vision under dark-dim conditions at night. Cones contain cone opsins as their visual pigments and, depending on the exact structure of the opsin molecule, are maximally sensitive to either long wavelengths of light (red light), medium wavelengths of light (green light) or short wavelengths of light (blue light). Cones of different wavelength sensitivity and the consequent pathways of connectivity to the brain are, of course, the basis of color perception in our visual image.</p><div class="iconblock whole_rhythm clearfix ten_col fig" id="figA112F13" co-legend-rid="figlgndA112F13"><a href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F13/?report=objectonly" target="object" title="Fig. 13. " class="img_link icnblk_img figpopup" rid-figpopup="figA112F13" rid-ob="figobA112F13"><img class="small-thumb" src="/books/NBK11522/bin/A112-Image017.gif" src-large="/books/NBK11522/bin/A112-Image017.jpg" alt="Fig. 13. " /></a><div class="icnblk_cntnt" id="figlgndA112F13"><h4 id="A112.F13"><a href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F13/?report=objectonly" target="object" rid-ob="figobA112F13">Fig. 13. </a></h4><p class="float-caption no_bottom_margin">Photoreceptor types </p></div></div><div class="iconblock whole_rhythm clearfix ten_col fig" id="figA112F14a" co-legend-rid="figlgndA112F14a"><a href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F14a/?report=objectonly" target="object" title="Fig. 14a. " class="img_link icnblk_img figpopup" rid-figpopup="figA112F14a" rid-ob="figobA112F14a"><img class="small-thumb" src="/books/NBK11522/bin/A112-Image018.gif" src-large="/books/NBK11522/bin/A112-Image018.jpg" alt="Fig. 14a. " /></a><div class="icnblk_cntnt" id="figlgndA112F14a"><h4 id="A112.F14a"><a href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F14a/?report=objectonly" target="object" rid-ob="figobA112F14a">Fig. 14a. </a></h4><p class="float-caption no_bottom_margin">Light spectra </p></div></div><p>Three different cone mechanisms can be detected in behavioral, psychophysical, physiological and molecular staining in primate retinas (<a class="figpopup" href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F14a/?report=objectonly" target="object" rid-figpopup="figA112F14a" rid-ob="figobA112F14a">Fig. 14a</a>). This 3-cone mechanism is the basis of so called trichromatic vision which most humans have. Thus, long wavelength sensitive, L-cones (red) are known to be maximally sensitive to wavelengths peaking around 560nm, medium wavelength sensitive, M-cones (green) peak around 530nm and short wavelength cones, S-cones (blue) peak at 420nm respectively (<a class="figpopup" href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F14a/?report=objectonly" target="object" rid-figpopup="figA112F14a" rid-ob="figobA112F14a">Fig. 14a</a>) (Bowmaker and Dartnell, 1980; <a class="bk_pop" href="#A112.REF.bowmaker.1980.131">Bowmaker et al., 1980</a>, and see chapter on color vision in webvision). Other authors have a different result for the peak sensitivity of the blue cones, or S-cones, with peaks varying from 430nm (<a class="bk_pop" href="#A112.REF.baylor.1987.145">Baylor et al., 1987</a>) to 445nm (<a class="bk_pop" href="#A112.REF.dobelle.1969.1508">Dobelle, Marks and MacNichol 1969</a>).</p><p>Most mammalian species are dichromatic containing as well as rods only middle and short wavelength sensitive cones in their retinas. Primates and humans, birds, reptiles and fish are trichromatic, tetrachromatic and some even pentachromatic (the latter three vertebrate phyla).</p><p>Normal human color vision depends on these three cone mechanisms. This adds an added dimension to color vision over that of mammals which are mostly dichromatic. Dichromats have just long wavelength (red) and short wavelength (blue) cones. In primates and humans, nature has split the long-wave system into two systems with slightly different spectral sensitivities. The blue cones are like those found in dichromatic mammals. <a class="figpopup" href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F14b/?report=objectonly" target="object" rid-figpopup="figA112F14b" rid-ob="figobA112F14b">Fig. 14b</a> shows the subtle difference in the molecular structure of the red, green and blue cone photopigments compared with the rhodopsin rod pigment (different molecules are colored pink (<a class="bk_pop" href="#A112.REF.nathans.1986.203">Nathans et al., 1986</a>).<a class="figpopup" href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F14b/?report=objectonly" target="object" rid-figpopup="figA112F14b" rid-ob="figobA112F14b">Figure 14b</a> shows the subtle difference in the molecular structure of the red and green cone photopigments compared with the rhodopsin rod pigment (<a class="bk_pop" href="#A112.REF.nathans.1986.203">Nathans et al., 1986</a>).</p><div class="iconblock whole_rhythm clearfix ten_col fig" id="figA112F14b" co-legend-rid="figlgndA112F14b"><a href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F14b/?report=objectonly" target="object" title="Fig. 14b. " class="img_link icnblk_img figpopup" rid-figpopup="figA112F14b" rid-ob="figobA112F14b"><img class="small-thumb" src="/books/NBK11522/bin/A112-Image019.gif" src-large="/books/NBK11522/bin/A112-Image019.jpg" alt="Fig. 14b. . The closely related molecular structure of the cone opsins." /></a><div class="icnblk_cntnt" id="figlgndA112F14b"><h4 id="A112.F14b"><a href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F14b/?report=objectonly" target="object" rid-ob="figobA112F14b">Fig. 14b. </a></h4><p class="float-caption no_bottom_margin">The closely related molecular structure of the cone opsins. The blue-cone opsin compared with rhodopsin. The blue-cone opsin compared with the green opsin and the minimal difference between the red- and green-cone opsins. The pink-filled circles represent <a href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F14b/?report=objectonly" target="object" rid-ob="figobA112F14b">(more...)</a></p></div></div><p><a class="figpopup" href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F14b/?report=objectonly" target="object" rid-figpopup="figA112F14b" rid-ob="figobA112F14b">Figure 14b</a> shows the subtle difference in the molecular structure of the red and green cone photopigments compared with the rhodopsin rod pigment (<a class="bk_pop" href="#A112.REF.nathans.1986.203">Nathans et al., 1986</a>).</p><p>To understand color vision and how the colored visual message is processed in the retina we need to be able to start with a morphological distinction of the three (or more) cone types, so they can then, hopefully be identified with any color specific connections they make, i.e. connections to bipolar, horizontal cell and finally ganglion cells of the retina. Fortunately, certain vertebrate species have distinctly different morphological cone types in their retinas and it has recently become possible to correlate these morphologies with spectral sensitivity. Now we can distinguish short, medium and long wavelength cones in retinas of some fish, frogs, birds, and reptiles (turtles) based on distinct morphological differences. Turtle retinas for example have colored oil droplets in their different spectral types of cone which identify them rather readily (<a class="figpopup" href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F15/?report=objectonly" target="object" rid-figpopup="figA112F15" rid-ob="figobA112F15">Figs. 15</a> and <a class="figpopup" href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F16/?report=objectonly" target="object" rid-figpopup="figA112F16" rid-ob="figobA112F16">16</a>) (see reviews by <a class="bk_pop" href="#A112.REF.kolb.1991">Kolb and Lipetz, 1991</a> and <a class="bk_pop" href="#A112.REF.ammermuller.1996.393">Ammermüller and Kolb, 1996</a>).</p><div class="iconblock whole_rhythm clearfix ten_col fig" id="figA112F15" co-legend-rid="figlgndA112F15"><a href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F15/?report=objectonly" target="object" title="Fig. 15. " class="img_link icnblk_img figpopup" rid-figpopup="figA112F15" rid-ob="figobA112F15"><img class="small-thumb" src="/books/NBK11522/bin/A112-Image020.gif" src-large="/books/NBK11522/bin/A112-Image020.jpg" alt="Fig. 15. " /></a><div class="icnblk_cntnt" id="figlgndA112F15"><h4 id="A112.F15"><a href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F15/?report=objectonly" target="object" rid-ob="figobA112F15">Fig. 15. </a></h4><p class="float-caption no_bottom_margin">Turtle cone oil droplets </p></div></div><div class="iconblock whole_rhythm clearfix ten_col fig" id="figA112F16" co-legend-rid="figlgndA112F16"><a href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F16/?report=objectonly" target="object" title="Fig. 16. " class="img_link icnblk_img figpopup" rid-figpopup="figA112F16" rid-ob="figobA112F16"><img class="small-thumb" src="/books/NBK11522/bin/A112-Image021.gif" src-large="/books/NBK11522/bin/A112-Image021.jpg" alt="Fig. 16. . Diagrammatic representation of turtle photoreceptors and their associated oil droplets." /></a><div class="icnblk_cntnt" id="figlgndA112F16"><h4 id="A112.F16"><a href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F16/?report=objectonly" target="object" rid-ob="figobA112F16">Fig. 16. </a></h4><p class="float-caption no_bottom_margin">Diagrammatic representation of turtle photoreceptors and their associated oil droplets. UV, UV cone; B, blue cone; DC, double cone; G, green cone; R, red cone; Rod, rod (no oil droplet). </p></div></div><p>However, primate and human retinas still contain cone types which look essentially the same morphologically, but here too with the latest anatomical techniques we are beginning to be able to see at least a difference between the short wavelength cone and the two longer wavelength cones. Specialized histochemical techniques (<a class="bk_pop" href="#A112.REF.marc.1977.454">Marc and Sperling, 1977</a>), dye uptake studies (<a class="bk_pop" href="#A112.REF.demonasterio.1981.1278">DeMonasterio et al., 1981</a>) or use of antibodies specific for visual pigments (<a class="bk_pop" href="#A112.REF.szel.1988.593">Szel et al., 1988</a>) have allowed identification of the different spectral types of cone in most mammalian species now. In primate retina antibodies against visual pigments stain outer segments of the L/M-cones together or the S-cones only.</p><p>In <a class="figpopup" href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F17/?report=objectonly" target="object" rid-figpopup="figA112F17" rid-ob="figobA112F17">Figure 17</a> in anti-visual pigment antibody stained tissue, the S-cones stand out as the cones that are not stained because the antibody recognizes only L- and M-cone visual pigment. i.e. the brown stained cone profiles are L- and M-cone types while the unstained profiles surrounded by blue circles are the S-cones (<a class="bk_pop" href="#A112.REF.wikler.1990.3390">Wikler and Rakic, 1990</a>).</p><div class="iconblock whole_rhythm clearfix ten_col fig" id="figA112F17" co-legend-rid="figlgndA112F17"><a href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F17/?report=objectonly" target="object" title="Fig. 17. " class="img_link icnblk_img figpopup" rid-figpopup="figA112F17" rid-ob="figobA112F17"><img class="small-thumb" src="/books/NBK11522/bin/A112-Image022.gif" src-large="/books/NBK11522/bin/A112-Image022.jpg" alt="Fig. 17. " /></a><div class="icnblk_cntnt" id="figlgndA112F17"><h4 id="A112.F17"><a href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F17/?report=objectonly" target="object" rid-ob="figobA112F17">Fig. 17. </a></h4><p class="float-caption no_bottom_margin">Primate cone mosaic </p></div></div></div><div id="A112.sec6"><h2 id="_A112_sec6_">6. Morphology of the S-cones.</h2><p>Recently, careful morphological studies have enabled us to distinguish the short wavelength specific (blue) cone from the medium and long wavelength specific cones in the human retina even without special antibody staining techniques (<a class="bk_pop" href="#A112.REF.ahnelt.1987.18">Ahnelt et al., 1987</a>).</p><p>Thus, we now know that S-cones have longer inner segments that project further into subretinal space than longer wavelength cones (<a class="figpopup" href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F18/?report=objectonly" target="object" rid-figpopup="figA112F18" rid-ob="figobA112F18">Fig 18</a>). Their inner segment diameters do not vary much across the entire retina, thus they are fatter in the foveal area but thinner in the peripheral retina than longer wavelength cones. The S-cones also have smaller and morphologically different pedicles than the other two wavelength cones (<a class="bk_pop" href="#A112.REF.ahnelt.1990.39">Ahnelt et al., 1990</a>). Furthermore, throughout the retina, the S-cones have a different distribution and do not fit into the regular hexagonal mosaic of cones typical of the other two types.</p><div class="iconblock whole_rhythm clearfix ten_col fig" id="figA112F18" co-legend-rid="figlgndA112F18"><a href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F18/?report=objectonly" target="object" title="Fig. 18. " class="img_link icnblk_img figpopup" rid-figpopup="figA112F18" rid-ob="figobA112F18"><img class="small-thumb" src="/books/NBK11522/bin/A112-Image023.gif" src-large="/books/NBK11522/bin/A112-Image023.jpg" alt="Fig. 18. " /></a><div class="icnblk_cntnt" id="figlgndA112F18"><h4 id="A112.F18"><a href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F18/?report=objectonly" target="object" rid-ob="figobA112F18">Fig. 18. </a></h4><p class="float-caption no_bottom_margin">Vertical section of Human S-cone </p></div></div><p>This is illustrated in the tangential section of the foveal cone mosaic (<a class="figpopup" href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F19/?report=objectonly" target="object" rid-figpopup="figA112F19" rid-ob="figobA112F19">Fig. 19</a>) where the hexagonal packing is distorted in many places by a larger-diameter cone (arrowed cones) breaking up the perfect mosaic into irregular subunits. The larger-diameter cones are S-cones. These cones have their lowest density in the foveal pit at 3-5% of the cones, reach a maximum density of 15% on the foveal slope (1 degree from the foveal pit) and then form an even 8% of the total population elsewhere in the retina (<a class="bk_pop" href="#A112.REF.ahnelt.1987.18">Ahnelt et al., 1987</a>).</p><div class="iconblock whole_rhythm clearfix ten_col fig" id="figA112F19" co-legend-rid="figlgndA112F19"><a href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F19/?report=objectonly" target="object" title="Fig. 19. " class="img_link icnblk_img figpopup" rid-figpopup="figA112F19" rid-ob="figobA112F19"><img class="small-thumb" src="/books/NBK11522/bin/A112-Image024.gif" src-large="/books/NBK11522/bin/A112-Image024.jpg" alt="Fig. 19. " /></a><div class="icnblk_cntnt" id="figlgndA112F19"><h4 id="A112.F19"><a href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F19/?report=objectonly" target="object" rid-ob="figobA112F19">Fig. 19. </a></h4><p class="float-caption no_bottom_margin">S-cones in foveal cone mosaic </p></div></div><p>Analogous information concerning relative distributions of the M- and L-cones in the human retina are not easily available because we cannot tell them apart by morphological features or even by anti-visual pigment staining. In the monkey retina, <a class="bk_pop" href="#A112.REF.marc.1977.454">Marc and Sperling (1977)</a>, performed a colored light-dependent histochemical staining technique on freshly excised monkey eyes. They found that L-cones (red) occur at about 33% of the cones throughout the retina, while M-cones (green) peak in the fovea at 64% and vary between 52% and 59% elsewhere in the retina. However, others have found the L-cones to outnumber the M-cones in fovea and perifoveal psychophysical testing paradigms (<a class="bk_pop" href="#A112.REF.cicerone.1989.115">Cicerone and Nerger, 1989</a>). The latest laser inferometry techniques (<a class="bk_pop" href="#A112.REF.roorda.1999.520">Roorda and Williams, 1999</a>, <a class="bk_pop" href="#A112.REF.hofer.2005.9669">Hofer et al. 2005</a>), measuring the distribution of the red and green cones in the living human fovea, show there to be considerable variation amongst individuals. Some have an equal distribution of L- and M-cones, but others have a larger number of red cones even up to the ratio of 16 L-cones:1 M-cones. Both Roorda and Williams and Hofer et al’s (1999, 2005) data in human and <a class="bk_pop" href="#A112.REF.mollon.1992.677">Mollon and Bowmaker (1992)</a> in monkey fovea show an irregular and patchwork nature of the L- and M-cone distribution (see chapter on midget pathways, <a class="figpopup" href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F5/?report=objectonly" target="object" rid-figpopup="figA112F5" rid-ob="figobA112F5">Figure 5</a>).</p></div><div id="A112.sec7"><h2 id="_A112_sec7_">7. Densities of rods and cones in the human retina.</h2><p>It is important for our understanding of the organization of the visual connections for us to know the spatial distribution of the different cell types in the retina. Photoreceptors, we know, are organized in a fairly exact mosaic. As we saw in the fovea, the mosaic is a hexagonal packing of cones. Outside the fovea, the rods break up the close hexagonal packing of the cones but still allow an organized architecture with cones rather evenly spaced surrounded by rings of rods. Thus in terms of densities of the different photoreceptor populations in the human retina, it is clear that the cone density is highest in the foveal pit and falls rapidly outside the fovea to a fairly even density into the peripheral retina (<a class="figpopup" href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F20/?report=objectonly" target="object" rid-figpopup="figA112F20" rid-ob="figobA112F20">Figs. 20</a> and <a class="figpopup" href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F21/?report=objectonly" target="object" rid-figpopup="figA112F21" rid-ob="figobA112F21">21</a>) (<a class="bk_pop" href="#A112.REF.osterberg.1935.1">Osterberg, 1935</a>; <a class="bk_pop" href="#A112.REF.curcio.1987.579">Curcio et al., 1987</a>). There is a peak of the rod photoreceptors in a ring around the fovea at about 4.5 mm or 18 degrees from the foveal pit. The optic nerve (blind spot) is of course photoreceptor free (see below).</p><div class="iconblock whole_rhythm clearfix ten_col fig" id="figA112F20" co-legend-rid="figlgndA112F20"><a href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F20/?report=objectonly" target="object" title="Fig. 20 " class="img_link icnblk_img figpopup" rid-figpopup="figA112F20" rid-ob="figobA112F20"><img class="small-thumb" src="/books/NBK11522/bin/A112-Image025.gif" src-large="/books/NBK11522/bin/A112-Image025.jpg" alt="Fig. 20 " /></a><div class="icnblk_cntnt" id="figlgndA112F20"><h4 id="A112.F20"><a href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F20/?report=objectonly" target="object" rid-ob="figobA112F20">Fig. 20 </a></h4><p class="float-caption no_bottom_margin">Densitie of rods and cones along the horizontal meridian </p></div></div><div class="iconblock whole_rhythm clearfix ten_col fig" id="figA112F21" co-legend-rid="figlgndA112F21"><a href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F21/?report=objectonly" target="object" title="Fig. 21. " class="img_link icnblk_img figpopup" rid-figpopup="figA112F21" rid-ob="figobA112F21"><img class="small-thumb" src="/books/NBK11522/bin/A112-Image026.gif" src-large="/books/NBK11522/bin/A112-Image026.jpg" alt="Fig. 21. " /></a><div class="icnblk_cntnt" id="figlgndA112F21"><h4 id="A112.F21"><a href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F21/?report=objectonly" target="object" rid-ob="figobA112F21">Fig. 21. </a></h4><p class="float-caption no_bottom_margin">Cone densities in human retina </p></div></div></div><div id="A112.sec8"><h2 id="_A112_sec8_">8. Rods and Night Vision.</h2><p>Rods convey the ability to see at night, under conditions of very dim illumination. Animals with high densities of rods tend to be nocturnal, whereas those with mainly cones tend to be diurnal. The nature of dim light is important both to physicists and to biologists. In 1905 Einstein proposed that light propagated only in discrete irreducible packets or quanta (<a class="bk_pop" href="#A112.REF.einstein.1905.132">Einstein, 1905</a>). This explained the non-classical features of the ‘photoelectric effect’, a process by which light releases electrons from metal surfaces, described by Heinrich Hertz in 1887 (<a class="bk_pop" href="#A112.REF.hertz.1887.983">Hertz, 1887</a>). Rods are so sensitive that they actually detect single quanta of light, much as do the most sensitive of physical instruments. In 1942 Selig Hecht argued that human rods must be capable of detecting individual light quanta because light flashes so dim that only 1 in 100 rods were likely to absorb a quantum were yet reliably seen by careful observers (Hecht, 1942). A century after the original discovery of the photoelectric effect it has become possible to record directly the minute electrical voltages in rods induced by absorption of individual light quanta. An excellent example is shown in the suction electrode recordings of monkey rods by <a class="bk_pop" href="#A112.REF.schneeweis.1995.1053">Schneeweis and Schnapf (1995)</a> (<a class="figpopup" href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F22/?report=objectonly" target="object" rid-figpopup="figA112F22" rid-ob="figobA112F22">Fig. 22</a>). Each dot in the figure below represents delivery of a very dim pulse of light containing only a few quanta. Voltage responses appear to come in 3 sizes: none, small, and large, representing the detection of 0, 1 or 2 quanta in each flash. The granularity of response to dim light stimuli is evident.</p><div class="iconblock whole_rhythm clearfix ten_col fig" id="figA112F22" co-legend-rid="figlgndA112F22"><a href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F22/?report=objectonly" target="object" title="Fig. 22. " class="img_link icnblk_img figpopup" rid-figpopup="figA112F22" rid-ob="figobA112F22"><img class="small-thumb" src="/books/NBK11522/bin/A112-Image027.gif" src-large="/books/NBK11522/bin/A112-Image027.jpg" alt="Fig. 22. " /></a><div class="icnblk_cntnt" id="figlgndA112F22"><h4 id="A112.F22"><a href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F22/?report=objectonly" target="object" rid-ob="figobA112F22">Fig. 22. </a></h4><p class="float-caption no_bottom_margin">Photovoltages recorded in monkey rods </p></div></div><p>Rod sensitivity appears to be bought at a price, however, since rods are much slower to respond to light stimulation than cones. This is one reason why sporting events such as baseball become progressively more difficult as daylight fails. Both electrical recordings and human observations suggest that signals from rods may arrive as much as 1/10 second later than those from cones under lighting conditions where both can be simultaneously activated (<a class="bk_pop" href="#A112.REF.macleod.1972.173">MacLeod, 1972</a>).</p></div><div id="A112.sec9"><h2 id="_A112_sec9_">9. Ultrastructure of rod and cone synaptic endings.</h2><p>The job of the photoreceptor cell in the retina is to catch quanta of light in the visual pigment-containing membranes of the outer segment and pass a message, concerning numbers of quanta of light and sensitivities to the different wavelengths, to the next stage of integration and processing at the outer plexiform layer (see <a href="http://webvision.med.utah.edu/book/part-v-phototransduction-in-rods-and-cones/phototransduction-in-rods-and-cones/" ref="pagearea=body&targetsite=external&targetcat=link&targettype=uri">Phototransduction</a>).</p><p>The information transmitting end of the cone cell is known as the pedicle and of the rod cell as the spherule. Cone pedicles are large, conical, flat end-feet (8-10 µm diameter) of the cone axon that lie more or less side by side on the same plane at the outer edge of the outer plexiform layer (OPL)(<a class="figpopup" href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F23a/?report=objectonly" target="object" rid-figpopup="figA112F23a" rid-ob="figobA112F23a">Figs. 23a and b</a>). The more numerous rod spherules, in contrast, are small round enlargements of the axon (3-5 µm diameter) or even extensions of the cell body. They lie packed between and above the cone pedicles (<a class="figpopup" href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F23a/?report=objectonly" target="object" rid-figpopup="figA112F23a" rid-ob="figobA112F23a">Fig. 23a and b</a>). Both photoreceptor types’ synaptic endings are filled with synaptic vesicles. At their synapses to second-order neurons (bipolar and horizontal cells), both rod spherules and cone pedicles exhibit dense structures known as synaptic ribbons pointing to the postsynaptic invaginated processes (asterisks in <a class="figpopup" href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F24/?report=objectonly" target="object" rid-figpopup="figA112F24" rid-ob="figobA112F24">Fig. 24</a>). In the cone pedicle approximately 30 of these ribbons occur and are associated with 30 “triads” of invaginated processes (<a class="bk_pop" href="#A112.REF.ahnelt.1990.39">Ahnelt et al., 1990</a>). In the rod spherule 2 ribbons are associated with 4 invaginated second-order neurites while the cone pedicle delivers information to over a hundred second-order neurons (<a class="figpopup" href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F23b/?report=objectonly" target="object" rid-figpopup="figA112F23b" rid-ob="figobA112F23b">Fig. 23b</a>).</p><div class="iconblock whole_rhythm clearfix ten_col fig" id="figA112F23a" co-legend-rid="figlgndA112F23a"><a href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F23a/?report=objectonly" target="object" title="Fig. 23a " class="img_link icnblk_img figpopup" rid-figpopup="figA112F23a" rid-ob="figobA112F23a"><img class="small-thumb" src="/books/NBK11522/bin/A112-Image028.gif" src-large="/books/NBK11522/bin/A112-Image028.jpg" alt="Fig. 23a . EM picture of a cone pedicle and surrounding rod spherules." /></a><div class="icnblk_cntnt" id="figlgndA112F23a"><h4 id="A112.F23a"><a href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F23a/?report=objectonly" target="object" rid-ob="figobA112F23a">Fig. 23a </a></h4><p class="float-caption no_bottom_margin">EM picture of a cone pedicle and surrounding rod spherules. </p></div></div><div class="iconblock whole_rhythm clearfix ten_col fig" id="figA112F24" co-legend-rid="figlgndA112F24"><a href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F24/?report=objectonly" target="object" title="Fig. 24 " class="img_link icnblk_img figpopup" rid-figpopup="figA112F24" rid-ob="figobA112F24"><img class="small-thumb" src="/books/NBK11522/bin/A112-Image030.gif" src-large="/books/NBK11522/bin/A112-Image030.jpg" alt="Fig. 24 . EM cone pedicle of turtle retina." /></a><div class="icnblk_cntnt" id="figlgndA112F24"><h4 id="A112.F24"><a href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F24/?report=objectonly" target="object" rid-ob="figobA112F24">Fig. 24 </a></h4><p class="float-caption no_bottom_margin">EM cone pedicle of turtle retina. Courtesy Arnaldo Lasansky. </p></div></div><div class="iconblock whole_rhythm clearfix ten_col fig" id="figA112F23b" co-legend-rid="figlgndA112F23b"><a href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F23b/?report=objectonly" target="object" title="Fig. 23b. " class="img_link icnblk_img figpopup" rid-figpopup="figA112F23b" rid-ob="figobA112F23b"><img class="small-thumb" src="/books/NBK11522/bin/A112-Image029.gif" src-large="/books/NBK11522/bin/A112-Image029.jpg" alt="Fig. 23b. . Reconstruction from EM of a cone pedicle (center) surrounded by rod spherules." /></a><div class="icnblk_cntnt" id="figlgndA112F23b"><h4 id="A112.F23b"><a href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F23b/?report=objectonly" target="object" rid-ob="figobA112F23b">Fig. 23b. </a></h4><p class="float-caption no_bottom_margin">Reconstruction from EM of a cone pedicle (center) surrounded by rod spherules. Courtesy of Holger Jastrow, University of Mainz, Germany </p></div></div><div id="A112.F25" class="figure bk_fig"><div class="graphic"><img src="/books/NBK11522/bin/A112-Image004.jpg" alt="Fig. 25. " /></div><h3><span class="label">Fig. 25. </span></h3><div class="caption"><p>EM rod spherule</p></div></div><p>The cone “triad” of invaginated second-order processes consists typically of a central element which is a dendritic terminal of an invaginating bipolar cell (IBC), and two lateral elements which are dendritic terminals of horizontal cells (HC) (<a class="figpopup" href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F24/?report=objectonly" target="object" rid-figpopup="figA112F24" rid-ob="figobA112F24">Figs. 24</a> and <a class="figpopup" href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F27/?report=objectonly" target="object" rid-figpopup="figA112F27" rid-ob="figobA112F27">27</a>). In addition, other varieties of bipolar cell have dendrites making synaptic contacts on the under surface of the cone pedicle at what were first called flat contacts (FBC) (<a class="bk_pop" href="#A112.REF.missotten.1965">Missotten, 1965</a>; <a class="bk_pop" href="#A112.REF.dowling.1966">Dowling and Boycott, 1966</a>; <a class="bk_pop" href="#A112.REF.kolb.1970.261">Kolb, 1970</a>) (<a class="figpopup" href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F27/?report=objectonly" target="object" rid-figpopup="figA112F27" rid-ob="figobA112F27">Fig. 27</a>), but then were better characterized and defined by <a class="bk_pop" href="#A112.REF.lasansky.1971.365">Lasansky (1971)</a> as basal junctions (<a class="figpopup" href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F26/?report=objectonly" target="object" rid-figpopup="figA112F26" rid-ob="figobA112F26">Fig. 26</a>).</p><div class="iconblock whole_rhythm clearfix ten_col fig" id="figA112F27" co-legend-rid="figlgndA112F27"><a href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F27/?report=objectonly" target="object" title="Fig. 27. " class="img_link icnblk_img figpopup" rid-figpopup="figA112F27" rid-ob="figobA112F27"><img class="small-thumb" src="/books/NBK11522/bin/A112-Image032.gif" src-large="/books/NBK11522/bin/A112-Image032.jpg" alt="Fig. 27. " /></a><div class="icnblk_cntnt" id="figlgndA112F27"><h4 id="A112.F27"><a href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F27/?report=objectonly" target="object" rid-ob="figobA112F27">Fig. 27. </a></h4><p class="float-caption no_bottom_margin">Cone triad </p></div></div><div class="iconblock whole_rhythm clearfix ten_col fig" id="figA112F26" co-legend-rid="figlgndA112F26"><a href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F26/?report=objectonly" target="object" title="Fig. 26 " class="img_link icnblk_img figpopup" rid-figpopup="figA112F26" rid-ob="figobA112F26"><img class="small-thumb" src="/books/NBK11522/bin/A112-Image031.gif" src-large="/books/NBK11522/bin/A112-Image031.jpg" alt="Fig. 26 " /></a><div class="icnblk_cntnt" id="figlgndA112F26"><h4 id="A112.F26"><a href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F26/?report=objectonly" target="object" rid-ob="figobA112F26">Fig. 26 </a></h4><p class="float-caption no_bottom_margin">EM of turtle cone pedicle and types of bipolar synaptic contacts </p></div></div><p>Rods spherules have only two synaptic ribbons associated with two lateral elements that are horizontal cell axon terminals (HC) and two central invaginating dendrites of rod bipolar cells (rb) (<a class="bk_pop" href="#A112.REF.missotten.1965">Missotten, 1965</a>; <a class="bk_pop" href="#A112.REF.dowling.1966">Dowling and Boycott, 1966</a>; <a class="bk_pop" href="#A112.REF.kolb.1970.261">Kolb, 1970</a>). There are no basal junctions on rod spherules.</p><div id="A112.F28" class="figure bk_fig"><div class="graphic"><img src="/books/NBK11522/bin/A112-Image005.jpg" alt="Fig. 28. " /></div><h3><span class="label">Fig. 28. </span></h3><div class="caption"><p>Rod triad</p></div></div></div><div id="A112.sec10"><h2 id="_A112_sec10_">10. Interphotoreceptor contacts at gap junctions.</h2><p>There also appears to be a pathway for crosstalk between cones and cones and cones and rods in the human retina. Cone pedicles have small projections from their sides or bases that pass to neighboring rod spherules and cone pedicles. Where these projections, called telodendria, meet they have a specialized junction known to be typical of electrical synaptic transmission. These are minute gap junctions (<a class="figpopup" href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F29/?report=objectonly" target="object" rid-figpopup="figA112F29" rid-ob="figobA112F29">Fig. 29</a>) (<a class="bk_pop" href="#A112.REF.raviola.1975.192">Raviola and Gilula, 1975</a>; <a class="bk_pop" href="#A112.REF.nelson.1985">Nelson et al., 1985</a>).</p><div class="iconblock whole_rhythm clearfix ten_col fig" id="figA112F29" co-legend-rid="figlgndA112F29"><a href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F29/?report=objectonly" target="object" title="Fig. 29. " class="img_link icnblk_img figpopup" rid-figpopup="figA112F29" rid-ob="figobA112F29"><img class="small-thumb" src="/books/NBK11522/bin/A112-Image033.gif" src-large="/books/NBK11522/bin/A112-Image033.jpg" alt="Fig. 29. " /></a><div class="icnblk_cntnt" id="figlgndA112F29"><h4 id="A112.F29"><a href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F29/?report=objectonly" target="object" rid-ob="figobA112F29">Fig. 29. </a></h4><p class="float-caption no_bottom_margin">Gap junctions between photoreceptors </p></div></div><p>As many as 3-5 gap junctions occur on a single rod spherule from neighboring cone telodendria, and a single cone pedicle can have as many as 10 contacts to neighboring rods. Pedicles of S-cones do not have as many telodendrial gap junctions with either neighboring rods or cones (<a class="bk_pop" href="#A112.REF.ahnelt.1990.39">Ahnelt et al., 1990</a>) and thus, this cone type remains relatively isolated in the cone mosaic, and, as we shall see later, remains isolated to the ganglion cell level too, due to connections with a specific ‘S-cone bipolar cell.</p><p>Direct interactions between different functional classes of photoreceptors were not anticipated based on any known or theoretical needs of the visual system. In fact such connections would appear to degrade spatial resolution, and, potentially, color perception by mixing signals from photoreceptors at different locations or with different photopigments. Nonetheless, in agreement with anatomical findings, mammalian cones appear to carry rod signals. The slow wave forms of rod signals are easily distinguished from the rapid wave forms of cone signals in voltage recordings from single cones. Examples of voltage responses from monkey cones are illustrated in <a class="figpopup" href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F30/?report=objectonly" target="object" rid-figpopup="figA112F30" rid-ob="figobA112F30">Figure 30</a> (<a class="bk_pop" href="#A112.REF.schneeweis.1995.1053">Schneeweis and Schnapf, 1995</a>). Voltage records resulting from balanced red and green stimuli are illustrated.</p><div class="iconblock whole_rhythm clearfix ten_col fig" id="figA112F30" co-legend-rid="figlgndA112F30"><a href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F30/?report=objectonly" target="object" title="Fig. 30. " class="img_link icnblk_img figpopup" rid-figpopup="figA112F30" rid-ob="figobA112F30"><img class="small-thumb" src="/books/NBK11522/bin/A112-Image034.gif" src-large="/books/NBK11522/bin/A112-Image034.jpg" alt="Fig. 30. " /></a><div class="icnblk_cntnt" id="figlgndA112F30"><h4 id="A112.F30"><a href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F30/?report=objectonly" target="object" rid-ob="figobA112F30">Fig. 30. </a></h4><p class="float-caption no_bottom_margin">Voltage recording from monkey cone </p></div></div><p>Both records exhibit the same initial peak hyperpolarization in response to the brief stimulus, however the green stimulus (solid trace) also evokes a slower hyperpolarizing phase after the initial response which the red stimulus (dotted trace) does not (<a class="figpopup" href="/books/NBK11522/figure/A112.F30/?report=objectonly" target="object" rid-figpopup="figA112F30" rid-ob="figobA112F30">Fig. 30</a>). This latter electrical wave has the characteristics of a rod signal. Such signals have also been observed in cat cones (<a class="bk_pop" href="#A112.REF.nelson.1977.109">Nelson, 1977</a>). One theory of the utility of this arrangement is that it allows rods to utilize neural pathways devoted to both cones and rods in sending visual information to the inner plexiform layer. Cone pathways may be tuned to faster temporal characteristics than rod pathways, and so by utilizing both pathways, rods may transmit a wider bandwidth of temporal information. There is evidence for two rod pathways with different dynamic signatures in perceptual experiments (<a class="bk_pop" href="#A112.REF.sharpe.1989.1539">Sharpe et al, 1989</a>). Although the functional role of interreceptor junctions is still a matter of debate, they perhaps serve as a philosophical warning to studies of biological sensory systems: Not even the receptor cells themselves stand in isolation of the activity and influence of neighboring neurons.</p></div><div id="A112.sec11"><h2 id="_A112_sec11_">11. References.</h2><ol><li><div class="bk_ref" id="A112.REF.adler.1982.1601">Adler
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