on 10/22/02 7:20 PM, Stephen Black at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Actually, this is just about bipolar cells. It just seemed obligatory
> to refer to the anti-semitism issue.
> 
> I just lectured on the amazing sequence of events beginning with the
> capture of photons by rods and ending with firing in retinal ganglion
> cells. I told my class that the neurotransmitter released by rods
> onto bipolar cells is glutamate. A student wanted to know what the
> neurotransmitter was that allowed bipolars to depolarize ganglion
> cells.  
> 
> Does anyone know? With a reference, hopefully?  And I also hope Linda
> doesn't think my question is anti-semitic.


Also appears to be glutamate. Of the non-anti-semitic variety, I hope, but
the abstract doesn't say.

J Neurosci 2002 Mar 15;22(6):2165-73
� 
Synaptically released glutamate activates extrasynaptic NMDA receptors on
cells in the ganglion cell layer of rat retina.

Chen S, Diamond JS.


John

-- 
John Serafin
Psychology Department
Saint Vincent College
Latrobe, PA 15650
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