Article
The light response of Drosophila photoreceptors is accompanied by an increase in cellular calcium: effects of specific mutations.
Neuron - 1 Jun 1994
Peretz A, Suss-Toby E, Rom-Glas A, Arnon A, Payne R, Minke B
Abstract excerpt
Photoreceptors of dissociated Drosophila retinae were loaded with the fluorescent Ca2+ indicators, fluo-3 and Calcium Green-5N. In fluo-3-loaded, wild-type photoreceptors, a rapid increase in fluorescence (Ca2+ signal) accompanied the light-evoked inward current. Removal of extracellular Ca2+ gre...
Topics
- Aniline Compounds
- Animals
- Calcium
- Calcium Channels
- Drosophila melanogaster
- Electrophysiology
- Fluorescent Dyes
- In Vitro Techniques
- Light
- Membrane Potentials
- Mutation
- Photoreceptor Cells, Invertebrate
- Pupa
- Retina
- Spectrometry, Fluorescence
- Xanthenes