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The Journal of General Physiology, Vol 99, 85-107, Copyright © 1992 by The Rockefeller University Press

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Sustained and transient calcium currents in horizontal cells of the white bass retina

JM Sullivan and EM Lasater
Department of Physiology, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City 84108.

Calcium currents were recorded from cultured horizontal cells (HCs) isolated from adult white bass retinas, using the whole-cell patch- clamp technique. Ca2+ currents were enhanced using 10 mM extracellular Ca2+, while Na+ and K+ currents were pharmacologically suppressed. Two components of the Ca2+ current, one transient, the other sustained, were found. The large transient component of the Ca2+ current, which has not been seen before in HCs, is similar, but not identical, to the T-type Ca2+ current described previously in a variety of preparations. The sustained component of the Ca2+ current is similar, but not identical, to the L-type current described in other preparations. FTX, a factor isolated from the venom of the funnel-web spider, Agelenopsis aperta, preferentially and irreversibly blocks the sustained component of the Ca2+ current at very dilute concentrations. The sustained component of the Ca2+ current inactivates slowly, over the course of 15- 60 s, in some HCs. This inactivation of the sustained Ca2+ current, when present, is primarily voltage dependent rather than Ca2+ dependent.
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