Visual transduction and non-visual light perception
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[Book]
First Statement of Responsibility
edited by Joyce Tombran-Tink, Colin J. Barnstable
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
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Totowa, N.J. :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Humana Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
c2008
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xi, 509 p. :
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ill. ;
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27 cm +
Accompanying Material
1 CD-ROM (col. ; 4 3/4 in.)
SERIES
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Ophthalmology research
GENERAL NOTES
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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
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index
REPRODUCTION NOTE
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Also available in print
CONTENTS NOTE
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An organ of exquisite perfection / George Ayoub -- Development of the Foveal specialization / Keely M. Bumsted O'Brien -- An update on the regulation of rod photoreceptor development / Edward M. Levine and Sabine Fuhrmann -- Photoreceptor-RPE interactions : physiology and molecular mechanisms / Silvia C. Finnemann and Yongen Chang -- Molecular biology of IRBP and its role in the visual cycle / Diane E. Borst, Jeffrey H. Boatright, and John M. Nickerson -- Regulation of photoresponses by phosphorylation / Alecia K. Gross, Qiong Wang, and Theodore G. Wensel -- The cGMP signaling pathway in retinal photoreceptors and the central role of photoreceptor phosphodiesterase (PDE6) / Rick H. Cote -- Rhodopsin structure, function, and involvement in retinitis pigmentosa / Scott Gleim and John Hwa -- Multiple signaling pathways govern calcium homeostasis in photoreceptor inner segments / Tamas Szikra and David Krizaj -- The transduction channels of rod and cone photoreceptors / Dimitri Tränkner -- Rhodopsins in Drosophila color vision / David Jukam, Preet Lidder, and Claude Desplan -- INAD signaling complex of Drosophila photoreceptors / Armin Huber and Nina E. Meyer -- Visual signal processing in the inner retina / Botir T. Sagdullaev, Tomomi Ichinose, Erika D. Eggers, and Peter D. Lukasiewicz -- Human clone spectral sensitivities and color vision deficiencies / Andrew Stockman and Lindsay T. Sharpe -- Luminous efficiency functions / Lindsay T. Sharpe and Andrew Stockman -- Cone pigments and vision in the mouse / Gerald H. Jacobs -- Multifocal oscillatory potentials of the human retina / Anne Kurtenbach and Herbert Jägle -- The aging of the retina / Caren Bellmann and José A. Sahel -- Aging of the retinal pigment epithelium / Michael E. Boulton -- Visual transduction and age-related changes in lipofuscin / Małgorzata Różanowski and Bartosz Różanowski -- A nonspecific system provides nonphotic information for the biological clock / Marian H. Lewandowski -- The circadian clock : physiology, genes, and disease / Michael C. Antle
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System requirements for accompanying CD-ROM: compatible with both Mac and PC operating systems