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ArticleDocumenta ophthalmologica. Advances in ophthalmology2021

The influence of temporal frequency and stimulus size on the relative contribution of luminance and L-/M-cone opponent mechanisms in heterochromatic flicker ERGs.

Jan Kremers, Avinash J Aher, Yassen Popov, Maziar Mirsalehi, Cord Huchzermeyer

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Article in Documenta ophthalmologica. Advances in ophthalmology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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Jan KremersSection for Retinal Physiology, University Hospital Erlangen, Schwabachanlage 6, 91054, Erlangen, Germany. jan.kremers@uk-erlangen.de.ORCID 0000-0002-9293-7380
Avinash J AherSection for Retinal Physiology, University Hospital Erlangen, Schwabachanlage 6, 91054, Erlangen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-0516-1706
Yassen PopovSection for Retinal Physiology, University Hospital Erlangen, Schwabachanlage 6, 91054, Erlangen, Germany.
Maziar MirsalehiSection for Retinal Physiology, University Hospital Erlangen, Schwabachanlage 6, 91054, Erlangen, Germany.
Cord HuchzermeyerSection for Retinal Physiology, University Hospital Erlangen, Schwabachanlage 6, 91054, Erlangen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-0408-8981
Universitätsklinikum Erlangen · DE

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Abstract

purposeTo study the effect of stimulus size and temporal frequency on the relative contribution of luminance and L-/M-cone opponent signals in the ERG.

methodsIn four healthy, color normal subjects, ERG responses to heterochromatic stimuli with sinusoidal, counter-phase modulation of red and green LEDs were measured. By inverse variation of red and green contrasts, we varied luminance contrast while keeping L-/M-cone opponent chromatic contrast constant. The first harmonic components in the full field ERGs are independent of stimulus contrast at 12 Hz, while responses to 36 Hz stimuli vary, reaching a minimum close to isoluminance. It was assumed that ERG responses reflect L-/M-cone opponency at 12 Hz and luminance at 36 Hz. In this study, we modeled the influence of temporal frequency on the relative contribution of these mechanisms at intermediate frequencies, measured the influence of stimulus size on model parameters, and analyzed the second harmonic component at 12 Hz.

resultsThe responses at all frequencies and stimulus sizes could be described by a linear vector addition of luminance and L-/M-cone opponent reflecting ERGs. The contribution of the luminance mechanism increased with increasing temporal frequency and with increasing stimulus size, whereas the gain of the L-/M-cone opponent mechanism was independent of stimulus size and was larger at lower temporal frequencies. Thus, the luminance mechanism dominated at lower temporal frequencies with large stimuli. At 12 Hz, the second harmonic component reflected the luminance mechanism.

conclusionsThe ERGs to heterochromatic stimuli can be fully described in terms of linear combinations of responses in the (magnocellular) luminance and the (parvocellular) L-/M-opponent retino-geniculate pathways. The non-invasive study of these pathways in human subjects may have implications for basic research and for clinical research.

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ElectroretinographyRetinal Cone Photoreceptor CellsHumansPhotic StimulationTranscriptional Regulator ERGERG protein, humanTranscriptional Regulator ERGElectroretinographyHarmonicsHeterochromatic modulationL-/M-cone opponencyLuminanceStimulus sizeTemporal frequencyVector addition

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