Understanding Cone Photoreceptor Cell Death in Achromatopsia.

Abstract excerpt

Colour vision is only achieved in the presence of healthy and functional cone photoreceptors found in the retina. It is an essential component of human vision and usually the first complaint patients undergoing vision degeneration have is the loss of daylight colour vision. Therefore, an understanding of the biology and basic mechanisms behind cone death under the degenerative state of retinal dystrophies and how...

Topics

• Animals
• Apoptosis
• Color Vision
• Color Vision Defects
• Disease Models, Animal
• Genetic Predisposition to Disease
• Humans
• Mutation
• Retinal Cone Photoreceptor Cells
• Retinal Degeneration