Harnessing the Sun to See Anew

Gabriel Peinado Allina; Marie E Burns

doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2019.05.051

Harnessing the Sun to See Anew

Neuron. 2019 Jun 19;102(6):1093-1095. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2019.05.051.

Authors

Gabriel Peinado Allina¹, Marie E Burns²

Affiliations

¹ Center for Neuroscience and Depts of Ophthalmology & Vision Science and Cell Biology and Human Anatomy, University of California Davis, Davis, CA 95618, USA.
² Center for Neuroscience and Depts of Ophthalmology & Vision Science and Cell Biology and Human Anatomy, University of California Davis, Davis, CA 95618, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].

PMID: 31220441
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2019.05.051

Abstract

Light drives vision by directly activating opsin-based visual pigments in rod and cone photoreceptors. In this issue of Neuron, Morshedian et al. (2019) show that light also drives regeneration of the cone visual pigments via an elegant biochemical mechanism in Müller glial cells of the neural retina that can contribute to sustained cone function under daytime conditions.

Keywords: cones; opsin; photoreceptor retinoid.

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MeSH terms

Opsins
Regeneration
Retina
Retinal Cone Photoreceptor Cells*
Retinal Pigments*
Retinal Rod Photoreceptor Cells
Rod Opsins

Substances

Opsins
Retinal Pigments
Rod Opsins

Grants and funding

R01 EY014047/EY/NEI NIH HHS/United States