“…The apical membrane of the RPE hyperpola~izes during sustained light, owing to a drop in the potassium concentration in the interphotoreceptor space (Oakley, 1977(Oakley, , 1983Steinberg et al, 1980). RPE cells maintain an apical-side-positive transepithelial potential of 8-20 mV in the frog (Miller and Steinberg, 1977), 20-30 mV in the toad (Lasansky and De Fisch, 1966), and 5 mV in the dog (Tsuboi et al, 1986), which is affected by external and internal ion concentrations (Miller and Steinberg, 1977) and (indirectly) by light (Oakley, 1977;Oakley et al, 1978;Steinberg et al, 1980Steinberg et al, , 1983Miller and Steinberg, 1982;Griff and Steinberg, 1982;Steinberg, 1982, 1983).…”