cGMP controls many cellular functions ranging from growth, viability, and differentiation to
contractility, secretion, and ion transport. The mammalian genome encodes seven …

For decades, photoreceptors have been an outstanding model system for elucidating basic
principles in sensory transduction and biochemistry and for understanding many facets of …

One hundred and fifty years ago Max Schultze first proposed the duplex theory of vision, that
vertebrate eyes have two types of photoreceptor cells with differing sensitivity: rods for dim …

Simple sequence repeats (SSRs) are one of the most important genetic markers and widely
exist in most species. Here, we identified 249,822 SSRs from 3,951,919 genes in 112 plants …

Retinal rod photoreceptor cells have double membrane discs located in their outer
segments (ROS) that are continuously formed proximally from connecting cilia (CC) and …

In the vertebrate retina, rods and cones both detect light, but they differ in functional aspects
such as light sensitivity and temporal resolution, and in some cell biological aspects. For …

Calcium plays important roles in the function and survival of rod and cone photoreceptor
cells. Rapid regulation of calcium in the outer segments of photoreceptors is required for the …

Background Despite recent work to characterize gene expression changes associated with
larval development in oysters, the mechanism by which the larval shell is first formed is still …

The past decades have seen tremendous progress in our understanding of the function of
photoreceptors and olfactory sensory neurons, uncovering the mechanisms that determine …

The Function of the retina and effects of drugs on it can be assessed by recording
transretinal voltage across isolated retina that is perfused with physiological medium …