The cell biology of vision. Review uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Humans possess the remarkable ability to perceive color, shape, and motion, and to differentiate between light intensities varied by over nine orders of magnitude. Phototransduction--the process in which absorbed photons are converted into electrical responses--is the first stage of visual processing, and occurs in the outer segment, the light-sensing organelle of the photoreceptor cell. Studies of genes linked to human inherited blindness have been crucial to understanding the biogenesis of the outer segment and membrane-trafficking of photoreceptors.

publication date

  • September 20, 2010

Research

keywords

  • Eye
  • Vision, Ocular

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC3101587

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 77957201873

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1073/pnas.0637349100

PubMed ID

  • 20855501

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 190

issue

  • 6