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A History of the Classical Visual Cycle.
Progress in molecular biology and translational science - 1 Jan 2015
Wright Charles B, Redmond T Michael, Nickerson John M
Abstract excerpt
The visual cycle, the biochemical process by which the light-sensitive isomer of vitamin A is continually recycled, is crucial to vision in a healthy eye. More than 150 years of research into this remarkable biochemical process has given invaluable understanding in debilitating visual diseases that impact thousands of individuals worldwide, many of them children. The visual cycle spans photoreceptor cells in the...
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