Photoreceptor cell biology and inherited retinal degenerations /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: NetLibrary, Inc
Other Authors: Williams, David S.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: River Edge, N.J. : World Scientific Pub., [2004]
Series:Recent advances in human biology ; v. 10.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Ch. 1 Cell biology of photoreceptors and the RPE: a brief introduction / David S. Williams
  • Ch. 2 Crumbs-dependent epithelial organization in retinal morphogenesis and disease / Donald F. Ready and Ulrich Tepass
  • Ch. 3 From the golgi to the rod outer segment: formation, movement, docking and fusion of rhodopsin transport carriers / Dusanka Deretic
  • Ch. 4 Insights on retinal degeneration: molecular basis of polarized rhodopsin transport / Ching-Hwa Sung and Jen-Zen Chuang
  • Ch. 5 Targeting of visual pigments to rod outer segment in rhodopsin knockout mice / Guang Shi, Francis A. Concepcion and Jeannie Chen
  • Ch. 6 Photoreceptors and intraflagellar transport / Sheila A. Baker, Gregory J. Pazour, George B. Witman and Joseph C. Besharse
  • Ch. 7 Myosin III in receptors: what does it do? / Andréa Dosé, Jennifer Lin-Jones and Beth Burnside
  • Ch. 8 Light-dependent translocation of signaling proteins in vertebrate and invertebrate photoreceptors / Katherine J. Strissel, Maxim Sokolov and Vadim Y. Arshavsky
  • Ch. 9 Centrins, potential regulators of transducin translocation in photoreceptor cells / Andreas Giessl, Philipp Trojan, Alexander Pulvermüller and Uwe Wolfrum
  • Ch. 10 The RP1 gene and protein in photoreceptor biology / Sara Achenbach, Qin Liu and Eric A. Pierce
  • Ch. 11 Molecular organization of rod outer segments / Robert S. Molday
  • Ch. 12 Biochemistry and cell biology of the visual cycle / John C. Saari
  • Ch. 13 Role of Mertk in RPE phagocytosis and retinal disease / Douglas Vollrath and Wei Feng
  • Ch. 14 Roles of integrin receptors in the daily phagocytosis of photoreceptor outer segment fragments by the RPE / Emeline F. Nandrot and Silvia C. Finnemann
  • Ch. 15 Myosin VIIa in the retina / David S. Williams and Daniel Gibbs
  • Index.