Photoreceptor cell biology and inherited retinal degenerations /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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River Edge, N.J. :
World Scientific Pub.,
[2004]
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| Series: | Recent advances in human biology ;
v. 10. |
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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.