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Populations of Rod and Cone Photoreceptors in the Hamster Retina  

Yu, Song-Hee (Department of Biology, College of Natural Sciences, and Brain Science and Engineering Institute, Kyungpook National University)
Kim, Hyun-Jin (Department of Biology, College of Natural Sciences, and Brain Science and Engineering Institute, Kyungpook National University)
Lee, Kyoung-Pil (Department of Biology, College of Natural Sciences, and Brain Science and Engineering Institute, Kyungpook National University)
Lee, Eun-Shil (Department of Biology, College of Natural Sciences, and Brain Science and Engineering Institute, Kyungpook National University)
Lee, Jea-Young (Department of Biology, College of Natural Sciences, and Brain Science and Engineering Institute, Kyungpook National University)
Jeon, Chang-Jin (Department of Biology, College of Natural Sciences, and Brain Science and Engineering Institute, Kyungpook National University)
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Applied Microscopy / v.39, no.4, 2009 , pp. 291-299 More about this Journal
Abstract
We report on a quantitative analysis of cone and rod photoreceptors in hamster retina. Cone and rod photoreceptors were counted in retinal whole mounts using differential interference contrast (DIC) optics microscopy after staining of cone photoreceptors were stained with peroxidase-labeled peanut lectin. Middle-to-long-wave-sensitive-(M/L-), and shortwave-sensitive-(S-) cone opsins were visualized by observed using confocal microscope after immunocytochemical procedure. The average cone density was 9,307 $cells/mm^2$, giving a total of cones of 293,060 cone cells per retina. The peak density of cone cells (12,857 $cells/mm^2$) was found 0.3 mm from the optic disk (OD) of the nasal retina. The average rod density was 300,082 $cells/mm^2$, giving a total number of rods of 9,448,150 cells. The peak density of rod cells was found 0.3 mm from the OD of the dorsal retina. Of all photoreceptors studied, the total percentage of rods and cones were 96.99% and cones 3.01%, respectively. The mean ratio of rod and cone was 32.24 : 1. The cone photoreceptors of hamster contained both M/L- and S-cone opsins. The present results suggest that the hamster retina is strongly rod-dominated with some photopic property of vision.
Keywords
Cones; Density; Photoreceptors; Retinal mosaic; Rods;
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