Visual transduction and non-visual light perception
By: edited by Joyce Tombran-Tink, Colin J. Barnstable.
Contributors: Tombran-Tink, Joyce.; Barnstable, Colin J.
Series: Ophthalmology research
Publisher: Humana Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Totowa, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 509
ISBN-13: 9781588299574
Subjects: Visual discrimination; Cellular signal transduction; Transduction; Photoreceptors; Phototransduction -- physiology; Photoreceptors, Vertebrate -- physiology; Signal Transduction -- physiology
Notes: Accompanying CD contains black-and-white and color illustrations; image files are organized into folders by chapter number and are viewable in most Web browsers.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents: title: An organ of exquisite perfection / George Ayoub; title: Development of the Foveal specialization / Keely M. Bumsted O'Brien; title: An update on the regulation of rod photoreceptor development / Edward M. Levine and Sabine Fuhrmann; title: Photoreceptor-RPE interactions : physiology and molecular mechanisms / Silvia C. Finnemann and Yongen Chang; title: Molecular biology of IRBP and its role in the visual cycle / Diane E. Borst, Jeffrey H. Boatright, and John M. Nickerson; title: Regulation of photoresponses by phosphorylation / Alecia K. Gross, Qiong Wang, and Theodore G. Wensel; title: The cGMP signaling pathway in retinal photoreceptors and the central role of photoreceptor phosphodiesterase (PDE6) / Rick H. Cote; title: Rhodopsin structure, function, and involvement in retinitis pigmentosa / Scott Gleim and John Hwa; title: Multiple signaling pathways govern calcium homeostasis in photoreceptor inner segments / Tamas Szikra and David Krizaj; title: The transduction channels of rod and cone photoreceptors / Dimitri Tränkner; title: Rhodopsins in Drosophila color vision / David Jukam, Preet Lidder, and Claude Desplan; title: INAD signaling complex of Drosophila photoreceptors / Armin Huber and Nina E. Meyer; title: Visual signal processing in the inner retina / Botir T. Sagdullaev, Tomomi Ichinose, Erika D. Eggers, and Peter D. Lukasiewicz; title: Human clone spectral sensitivities and color vision deficiencies / Andrew Stockman and Lindsay T. Sharpe; title: Luminous efficiency functions / Lindsay T. Sharpe and Andrew Stockman; title: Cone pigments and vision in the mouse / Gerald H. Jacobs; title: Multifocal oscillatory potentials of the human retina / Anne Kurtenbach and Herbert Jägle; title: The aging of the retina / Caren Bellmann and José A. Sahel; title: Aging of the retinal pigment epithelium / Michael E. Boulton; title: Visual transduction and age-related changes in lipofuscin / Małgorzata Różanowski and Bartosz Różanowski; title: A nonspecific system provides nonphotic information for the biological clock / Marian H. Lewandowski; title: The circadian clock : physiology, genes, and disease / Michael C. Antle.