Transmitters in the Visual Process
- 1st Edition - January 1, 1976
- Editor: S.L. Bonting
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 1 - 1 5 8 5 - 6
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 1 - 4 8 2 7 - 4
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Request a sales quoteTransmitters in the Visual Process is a compilation of papers presented at a symposium of the Fifth International Meeting of the International Society for Neurochemistry in Barcelona in September 1975. This collection presents a multidisciplinary field of study on visual transmitter physiology, pharmacology, and intracellular transmitters. One paper discusses the structure and mechanism of the visual system of vertebrates that consists of cells that transmit photon signals absorbed in a photoreceptor cell to the brain. This book focuses on which transmitter is involved at that certain point where the signal crosses the gap between two stimulated adjacent membranes. One paper then examines the role of cyclic nucleotides in the functions of the rod outer segment, which is the sensitive part, of the photoreceptor cell. The different kinds of chemicals, such as calcium, taurine, gamma-amino butyric acid, glycine, and biogenic monoamines are examined as to their role as transmitters in the retina. This book concludes with a presentation of the results of a study done on the neurotransmitters and the isolated optic tract-superior colliculus of a guinea pig. This compendium will serve the needs of biochemists, medical students, and researchers in the fields of ophthalmology and neurophysiology.
Preface
Chapter 1 Structure and Mechanism of the Vertebrate Visual System
Chapter 2 Role of Cyclic Nucleotides in Photo-receptor Function
Chapter 3 Calcium as a Transmitter in Photo-receptor Cells
Chapter 4 Taurine, a Putative Transmitter in Retina
Chapter 5 Gamma Aminobutyric Acid and Flycine as Retinal Neurotransmitters
Chapter 6 Acetylcholine as a Retinal Transmitter Substance
Chapter 7 Biogenic Monoamines as Transmitters in the Retina
Chapter 8 Dopamine in Retinal Neuro-transmission
Chapter 9 Characterization of Catecholamine Receptors in Rat Retina
Chapter 10 Neurotransmitters and the Isolated Optic Tract-superior Colliculus of the Guinea Pig
Index
- No. of pages: 240
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: January 1, 1976
- Imprint: Pergamon
- Paperback ISBN: 9781483115856
- eBook ISBN: 9781483148274
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