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The spatial distribution of ERGs reflecting luminance and L-/M-cone-opponent signals

PURPOSE: To study the spatial retinal distribution of electroretinographic (ERG) responses that reflect signals in the L-/M-cone-opponent and luminance post-receptoral pathways. METHODS: ERG recordings to heterochromatic stimuli (sinusoidal counter-phase modulation of red and green LED light sources...

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Autores principales: Vidal, Kallene Summer, Aher, Avinash J., Ventura, Dora Fix, Kremers, Jan
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Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8116310/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33506285
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10633-020-09807-7
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author Vidal, Kallene Summer
Aher, Avinash J.
Ventura, Dora Fix
Kremers, Jan
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description PURPOSE: To study the spatial retinal distribution of electroretinographic (ERG) responses that reflect signals in the L-/M-cone-opponent and luminance post-receptoral pathways. METHODS: ERG recordings to heterochromatic stimuli (sinusoidal counter-phase modulation of red and green LED light sources) were performed, while varying fractions of red and green modulation. Two temporal frequencies of the stimuli were employed: 12 Hz to record ERGs that reflect L-/M-cone-opponent signal and 36 Hz for recording ERG signals sensitive to stimulus luminance. Stimuli were about 20° in diameter and projected on various retinal locations: the fovea and four eccentricities (10°, 19°, 28° and 35°), each presented nasally, temporally, inferiorly and superiorly from the fovea. RESULTS: The 36 Hz stimuli elicited responses that strongly varied with red fraction and were minimal at iso-luminance. Moreover, response phases changed abruptly at the minimum by 180°. In contrast, the responses to the 12 Hz stimuli had amplitudes and phases that changed more gradually with red fraction. The 36 Hz response amplitudes were maximal close to the fovea and sharply decreased with increasing distance from the fovea. The responses to 12 Hz stimuli were more broadly distributed across the retina. CONCLUSIONS: In the present study, it was found that retinal eccentricity and direction from the fovea have distinct effects on ERGs reflecting different post-receptoral mechanisms. The results are in accord with previous findings that ERGs to 12 Hz stimuli are predominantly determined by the red–green chromatic content of the stimuli, thus reflecting activation in the L-/M-cone-opponent pathway, while responses to 36 Hz stimuli manifest post-receptoral luminance-dependent activation. We found that the response in the cone-opponent pathway is broadly comparable across the retina; in comparison, response amplitude of the luminance pathway strongly depends on retinal stimulus position.
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spelling pubmed-81163102021-05-26 The spatial distribution of ERGs reflecting luminance and L-/M-cone-opponent signals Vidal, Kallene Summer Aher, Avinash J. Ventura, Dora Fix Kremers, Jan Doc Ophthalmol Original Research Article PURPOSE: To study the spatial retinal distribution of electroretinographic (ERG) responses that reflect signals in the L-/M-cone-opponent and luminance post-receptoral pathways. METHODS: ERG recordings to heterochromatic stimuli (sinusoidal counter-phase modulation of red and green LED light sources) were performed, while varying fractions of red and green modulation. Two temporal frequencies of the stimuli were employed: 12 Hz to record ERGs that reflect L-/M-cone-opponent signal and 36 Hz for recording ERG signals sensitive to stimulus luminance. Stimuli were about 20° in diameter and projected on various retinal locations: the fovea and four eccentricities (10°, 19°, 28° and 35°), each presented nasally, temporally, inferiorly and superiorly from the fovea. RESULTS: The 36 Hz stimuli elicited responses that strongly varied with red fraction and were minimal at iso-luminance. Moreover, response phases changed abruptly at the minimum by 180°. In contrast, the responses to the 12 Hz stimuli had amplitudes and phases that changed more gradually with red fraction. The 36 Hz response amplitudes were maximal close to the fovea and sharply decreased with increasing distance from the fovea. The responses to 12 Hz stimuli were more broadly distributed across the retina. CONCLUSIONS: In the present study, it was found that retinal eccentricity and direction from the fovea have distinct effects on ERGs reflecting different post-receptoral mechanisms. The results are in accord with previous findings that ERGs to 12 Hz stimuli are predominantly determined by the red–green chromatic content of the stimuli, thus reflecting activation in the L-/M-cone-opponent pathway, while responses to 36 Hz stimuli manifest post-receptoral luminance-dependent activation. We found that the response in the cone-opponent pathway is broadly comparable across the retina; in comparison, response amplitude of the luminance pathway strongly depends on retinal stimulus position. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2021-01-28 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC8116310/ /pubmed/33506285 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10633-020-09807-7 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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Kremers, Jan
The spatial distribution of ERGs reflecting luminance and L-/M-cone-opponent signals
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title_fullStr The spatial distribution of ERGs reflecting luminance and L-/M-cone-opponent signals
title_full_unstemmed The spatial distribution of ERGs reflecting luminance and L-/M-cone-opponent signals
title_short The spatial distribution of ERGs reflecting luminance and L-/M-cone-opponent signals
title_sort spatial distribution of ergs reflecting luminance and l-/m-cone-opponent signals
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8116310/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33506285
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10633-020-09807-7
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