Effects of electrical coupling on the cone-horizontal cell circuit in the catfish retina (Q1066835)

Based on experimental data, a model of the cone-horizontal cell (L-HC) circuit has been developed for the luminosity channel of the catfish retina and impulsive responses of cones and L-HC's were replicated for various experimental conditions. Interactions of the cone and L-HC waves were studied using Laplace transforms and the convolution theorem. The presence of a negative feedback circuit leads to deviations of the electrotonic decay from an exponential function. As a result of the dependency of the feedback gain on \(H^ 0\), electrical coupling introduces non-linearities in the cone- L-HC circuit that are dependent on the mean illuminance level.