Abstract
The barnacle photoreceptor sensitivity may either decrease (light adaptation) or increase (facilitation) after exposure to a conditioning light. The balance between adaptation and facilitation is influenced by at least three factors: initial sensitivity state of the cell, external calcium concentration, and conditioning intensity. Cells of very high sensitivity show mainly adaptation, which appears only for higher conditioning intensities and is suppressed in low-calcium media. Less sensitive cells, or those whose sensitivity is reduced by injury or metabolic decay, exhibit facilitation, expecially in low-calcium media and at intermediate conditioning intensities. Both phenomena show recovery time-courses of seconds-to-minutes. Models are proposed which relate light adaptation, as previously suggested, to increased internal calcium concentration, and facilitation either to decreased internal calcium concentration or to decreased activation "affinity" of ion- channel-blocking sites.
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