The Journal of General Physiology, Vol 60, 86-101,
Copyright © 1972 by The Rockefeller University Press
Light Adaptation of Discrete Waves in the Limulus Photoreceptor
Richard Srebro 1 and
Mahmood Behbehani 1
1 From the Department of Physiology, the Department of Biophysics, and the Neurosensory Laboratory, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York 14214
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.
Submitted on January 5, 1972