Visual phototransduction is the sensory transduction process of the visual system by which light is detected by photoreceptor cells (rods and cones) in...

retina and a light-sensitive receptor protein that triggers visual phototransduction in rods. Rhodopsin mediates dim light vision and thus is extremely...

neuroepithelial cell found in the retina that is capable of visual phototransduction. The great biological importance of photoreceptors is that they convert...

bound to proteins called opsins, is the chemical basis of visual phototransduction, the light-detection stage of visual perception (vision). Some microorganisms...

vertebrate retina rods and cones and it is very important in vertebrate phototransduction. It is a type of heterotrimeric G-protein with different α subunits...

carries its own spectral sensitivity of 380nm. However, to trigger the phototransduction cascade, the process that underlies the visual signal, the retinal...

of the visible spectrum (absorption peaks at ~480 nanometers). The phototransduction mechanism in these cells is not fully understood, but seems likely...

rhodopsin: photochemistry, extraction and differences in the norp AP12 phototransduction mutant". Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 59 (3):...

process by which light initiates a sensory response is called visual phototransduction. Activation of a single unit of rhodopsin, the photosensitive pigment...

transmission Chemical synapse Neuroendocrine signaling Exocrine signalling Pheromones Mechanotransduction Phototransduction Ion channel gating Gap junction...