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In the frog’s retina, the receptive fields of the ganglion cells are made of a central area (the excitatory receptive field or ERF) and of a peripheral area (the inhibitory receptive field or IRF). These two areas are antagonist: See Grusser & Grusser-Cornehls (1973). In order to explain this functional situation, it is necessary to ascribe great importance to the transverse cells of the retina: that is, the horizontal cells and the amacrine cells. In order to study this situation we have used the trans-retinal currents. These currents, or polarizing currents, are well known to alter the function of the retina. For instance, there are the subjective phosphenes (see Brindley, 1970). How does a polarizing current work? This is one problem we have encountered in this study.
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Maximov, V., Liege, B., Galand, G. (1976). Behaviour of the Ganglion Cells of the Frog’s Retina Submitted to a Polarizing Current: An in Vivo Study. In: Alfieri, R., Solé, P. (eds) XIIth I. S. C. E. R. G. Symposium. Documenta Ophthalmologica Proceedings Series, vol 10. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1575-2_17
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