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Sensory Transduction (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1990)
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Sensory Transduction (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1990)
Series: NATO Science Series A:, 194
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Present knowledge of the mechanisms underlying any single sensory
modality is so massive as to discourage effort directed towards
completeness. The idea underlying the structure of this volume on
"Sensory transduction" was to select just a few topics of general
interest, which are currently being investigated and for which a
reasonably clear picture is now available. During the last five
years there has been a revolution in the way sensory physi ologists
think about transduction, and a series of exciting advances have
been made in understanding the basic processes of photo
transduction, chemotransduction and mechan otransduction. It is
clear that in many cases the fundamental processes by which nature
attains optimization of performance are similar, and that they have
much in common with more general processes of signal recognition by
living structures. The molecular events underlying the detection of
photons by visual cells, the recognition of a given molecule by a
chemoreceptor, or the level of a hormone in the extracellular fluid
by a target cell, are all very similar, and involve the activation
of a sequence of events leading to a secon d messenger. The 20
papers that form the present volume cover various topics in the
field of sensory transduction. They originate from the lectures,
seminars and discussions which made up the XVIII Course of the
International School of Biophysics held in Erice, 9th - 19th June
1988.
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