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Neurotransmitters and neuromodulators of the fish retina

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The Visual System of Fish

Abstract

Like all neural tissue, the retina uses chemical neurotransmitters as the currency in which information is passed from one cell to another. The fish retina has been much used as a system in which to study retinal neurotransmitters and their actions. In the early days of retinal physiology, the fish retina was a popular preparation and a number of the primary tenets of visual information processing have been established using it. For example, a principal model of colour vision has been proposed based on work in the goldfish, Carassius auratus (Chapter 6). Because of its popularity as a physiological preparation it was an obvious choice for studies of neurotransmitters and neuromodulators. However, if one were rigorously to apply a pharmacologist’s requisites for a neurotransmitter, it is unlikely that any putative transmitter agent in the fish retina, with the possible exceptions of of GABA (γ-aminobutyric acid) in H1 horizontal cells or dopamine in interplexiform cells, could truly be called a neurotransmitter.

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