Great Review: Defective Trafficking of Rhodopsin and Its Role In Retinal Degenerations

This is a great review paper on the role of rhodopsin trafficking and its influence on retinal degenerative disease by TJ Hollingsworth and Alecia Gross.  Rhodopsin delocalization in rod photoreceptors has been recognized for some time as one of the first indications of retinal photoreceptor cell stress in retinal degenerative diseases, so I was intrigued …

Pseudoexfoliation

This image demonstrates pseudo-exfoliation syndrome of the lens capsule.   Photograph was made by James Gilman of the Moran Eye Center using broad tangential illumination with a Zeiss photo slitlamp and a Nikon D-1X camera.

100 Papers You Should Read: Receptive Field Organization of the S-Potential

This paper, the sixth in the 100 papers you should read in vision science category by Alan L. Norton, Henk Spekreijse, Myron L. Wolbarsht and Henry G. Wagner in 1968 examined the receptive fields of S-potentials in the retina of carp. The authors examined the relationship of the stimulus intensity with the area of stimulation for …