The Visual Transduction and Non-Visual Light Perception

About this book

Remarkable advances have contributed to revolutionizing the study of vertebrate vision. The first step to identifying objects and establishing spatial relationships is the visual transduction cascade, a process that underpins a wide range of ocular diseases and therapies. Toward that, Visual Transduction And Non-Visual Light Perception reveals not only how the eye evolved into an organ of vision, but also describes how molecular mechanisms of key molecules (such as transducins, phosphodiesterases, and CyclicGMP metabolizing enzymes) operate in the phototransduction cascade. In this groundbreaking text, experts also explain mechanisms for sensing readiation outside of the visible wavelengths -- a good example of the limitations of the human sensory systems. Comprehensive and penetrating, Visual Transduction And Non-Visual Light Perception brings together the developmental, structural, and molecular mechanisms of the visual transduction cascade and is an invaluable text for everyone conducting research in the visual system

Written for: Ophthalmologists, cell biologists, molecular biologists, students

Table of contents

Evolution of the Visual System
An Organ of Exquisite Perfection
Ayoub G
Photoreceptor Structure, Function and Development
Development of the Foveal Specialization
Bumsted O’Brien KM
Contribution of Environmental Factors to Rod Photoreceptor Development
Levine E and Fuhrmann S
The Retinal Pigment Epithelium and the Visual Cycle
Photoreceptor-RPE Interactions: Physiology and Molecular Mechanisms
Finnemann SC, Chang Y
Molecular Biology of IRBP and its Role in the Visual Cycle
Borst DE, Boatright JH and Nickerson JM
Visual Signaling in the Outer Retina
Regulation of Photoresponses by Phosphorylation
Gross AK, Wang Q, and Wensel TG
The cGMP Signaling Pathway in Retinal Photoreceptors and the Central Role of Photoreceptor Phosphodiesterase (PDE6)
Cote RH
Rhodopsin Structure, Function, and Involvement in Retinitis Pigmentosa
Gleim S and Hwa J
Multiple Signaling Pathways Govern Calcium Homeostasis In Photoreceptor Inner Segments
Szikra T and Krizaj D
The Transduction Channels of Rod and Cone Photoreceptors
Tränkner D
Rhodopsins in Drosophila Color Vision
Jukam DM, Lidder P, Desplan C
INAD Signalling Complex of Drosophila Photoreceptors
Huber A and Meyer N.E.
Visual Processing in the Inner Retina
Visual Signal Processing in the Inner Retina
Sagdullaev BT, Ichinose T, Eggers ED, and Lukasiewicz PD
Color Vision and Adaptive processes
Human cone spectral sensitivities and color vision deficiencies
Stockman A and Sharpe LT
Luminous Efficiency Functions
Sharpe LT and Stockman A
Cone Pigments and Vision in the Mouse
Jacobs GH
Multifocal Oscillatory Potentials of the Human retina
Kurtenbach A and Jaegle H
Aging and Vision
The Ageing of the Retina
Bellmann C, Sahel J
Ageing of the Retinal Pigment Epithelium
Boulton ME
Visual transduction and Age-related Changes in Lipofuscin
Rozanowska M and Rozanowski B
Non-Photoreceptor Light Detection and Circadian Rhythms
A Non-Specific System Provides Non-Photic Information for the Biological Clock
Lewandowski MH
The Circadian clock: Physiology, genes and disease
Antle M