Molecular mechanism of visual transduction.

Visual transduction covers the sequence of photochemical, biochemical and electrophysiological events through which the absorption of a photon in a pigment molecule in a photoreceptor cell generates an electrical cellular response that will be detectable at the level of the synaptic connection. Our understanding of visual transduction has considerably progressed recently and much of the new developments have been in the field of biochemistry and enzymology (for others recents review, see [1–3]).

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