Light Adaptation of Discrete Waves in the Limulus Photoreceptor

Srebro , Richard; Behbehani , Mahmood

doi:10.1085/jgp.60.1.86

Light Adaptation of Discrete Waves in the Limulus Photoreceptor

Richard Srebro,

Richard Srebro

From the Department of Physiology, the Department of Biophysics, and the Neurosensory Laboratory, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York 14214

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Mahmood Behbehani

From the Department of Physiology, the Department of Biophysics, and the Neurosensory Laboratory, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York 14214

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From the Department of Physiology, the Department of Biophysics, and the Neurosensory Laboratory, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York 14214

Mahmood Behbehani

From the Department of Physiology, the Department of Biophysics, and the Neurosensory Laboratory, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York 14214

Received: January 05 1972

Online ISSN: 1540-7748

Print ISSN: 0022-1295

1972

Light adaptation affects discrete waves in two ways. It reduces their average size and decreases the probability that a photon incident at the cornea causes a discrete wave. There is no effect of light adaptation on the latency of discrete waves, or on their time-course.

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