Vertebrate Photoreceptors Functional Molecular Bases /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Furukawa, Takahisa (Editor), Hurley, James B. (Editor), Kawamura, Satoru (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Neurosciences.; Cell biology.; Evolutionary biology.; Vertebrates.; Biomedicine.; Cell Biology.; Evolutionary Biology.

This book provides a series of comprehensive views on various important aspects of vertebrate photoreceptors. The vertebrate retina is a tissue that provides unique experimental advantages to neuroscientists. Photoreceptor neurons are abundant in this tissue and they are readily identifiable and eas...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1 Visual Pigments.-Chapter 2 Phototransduction in Rods and Cones.-Chapter 3 Visual Cycle.-Chapter 4 Adaptation.-Chapter 5 Energy Metabolism.-Chapter 6 Photoreceptor Development.-Chapter 7 Photoreceptor Synapse
• Synaptic Transmission.-Chapter 8 Photoreceptor Synapse
• Development of Synapse.-Chapter 9 Cell fate Determination.-Chapter 10 Polarity and Layer Formation.-Chapter 11 Photoreceptor Degeneration
• Chapter 12 Photoreceptor Regeneration
• Chapter 13 Pineal Organs.