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Photoreception And Phototransduction Flashcards

1
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Light detection that leads to vision and depends on photoreceptors

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Photo reception

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2
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Photon absorption by visual pigment that is lying on one of the discs in the outer segment of the photoreceptors

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Photo receptions

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3
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Specialized light sensitive neurons

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Photoreceptors

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4
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What is the visible sepctrum of light

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400-700

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5
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Peripheral visual system

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AKA scotopic

-dim light and motion

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6
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Central visual system

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Photopic

-color and detail

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7
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Rods (scotopic_

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Dim light
Not good for detailed vision
Not good for color
Lower sensitivity to rapidly changing stimuli

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8
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Specialized for detailed vision, color vision, less sensitive, and higher sensitive to rapidly changing stimuli

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Cones (photopic)

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9
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Are cones of rods more sensitive

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Rods

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10
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Are cones nad rods more sensitive to rapidly changing stimuli

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Cones

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11
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What photoreceptors are in the fovea

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Cones

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12
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Comprise 97% of photoreceptors

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Rods

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13
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Peak absorption of rods

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500-510

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14
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Rod convergence and sensitivity

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Increases sensitivity

-may rods gather light information onto one retinal bipolar cell

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15
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3% of photoreceptors

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Cones

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16
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More of these in fovea than periphery

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Cones

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17
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L-cone

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Red cone
560nm
Long wavelength

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18
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M-cone

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Green cone
530nm
Medium wavelength

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19
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S-cone

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Blue cone
420nm
Shirt wavelength

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20
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What cones is not present in fovea

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S cone

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21
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Convergence with cones and sensitivity

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There is no convergence

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22
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S cones and rods

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Very similar to shape as rods, not present in the fovea

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23
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Unstable pigmented that undergo a chemical change when they absorb light

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Photopigments

24
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Protein (opsin) + Chomophore

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Photopigmentes

25
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Opsin + 11=cis retinal (chromophore)

26
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Used for vision in dim light

27
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More stable and abundant than con pigments. Insoluble in water

28
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What are the three different cones

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Different iodopsins
Red
Blue
Yellow

29
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The series of biochemical events that lead from photon capture by a photoreceptors cell to its hyperpolarixation and slowing of NT release at the synapses

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Phototransudction

30
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Transformation of light into electrical and chemical signals that produces the perception of light

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Phototransduction

31
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First messengers

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Can be growth hormones, NT, light

  • cant pass into the cell, can only work on the receptors on the membrane
  • transforms signal into molecules inside the cells to pass the signal
32
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2nd messengers

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Molecules in the cells that respond to the receptor binding a 1st messenger that causes a response

33
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1st messenger in light transduction

34
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Cellular response to light binding

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Closure of CNG channel

35
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Cyclic-GMP-Gated-Cation Channel (GNC)

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  • allow Na+ and K+ and Ca2+ to enter the cell

- causes the cells to be partially depolarized (-50mV)

36
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Resting membrane potnetion in the dark

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Rods: -50mV

Other neurons: -70mV

37
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There is a net flux of cation outer and inner segment plasma membrane and a net flux of cations into the outer segment plasma membrane, as well as electrical conductance between the inner and outer segment, a complete circuit is made

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Dark current

38
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Biochemical cascade of light transduction

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I. Photoisomeraiztion of rhodopsin
IIG protein activation
III. PDE6 activation
IV. Channel closing

39
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Photoisomeraixation of rhodopsin

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Opsin (11-cis-retinal)-rhodopsin (light-MII

  • reduction of all-trans-retinal into all-trans-retinol occurs in photoreceptors
  • reisomerization of all-trans-retinol into 11-ci-retinal, occurs in RPE
40
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G protein activation

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  • metarhodopsin II encounters an inactive G protein
  • the Ga subunit of the G protein comes to lie over the MII
  • GDP is replaced by GTP (G protein binds to GTP-on, G Protein binds to GDP-off)
  • GTP binds to Ga, the protein is active
  • Ga-GTP unit separates from both MII and the By portion of the G protein
41
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G protein binds to GTP

42
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G protein binds to the GDP

43
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PDE6 activation

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The activated G protein binds with a molecule named cGMP phosphodiesteraee PDE6
-activated PDE6 converts the cGMP into CMP, PDE can degrade cGMP by hydro;lazing cGMP into gā€™-GMP)

44
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Channel closing

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  • reduction of cGMP concentration causes CNG channel closure
  • opening of CNG channel put photoreceptors at resting dark adapting state
45
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Phototransuction

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Phototransuction
Biochemical cascade
Electronic spread
Slowing of NT release

46
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What does closing the channel do

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Reduces the Na and Ca ions into the cell, reducing the dark current and making the membrane potential more negative

  • photocurrent in dark: cations moving into the cell
  • photocurrnt in light: a single photo isomerization closes ion channels and causes a 2% reduction in the photocurrent
47
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Communication of rods with downstream bipolar cells by the release of

48
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High level glutamate released by rods

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Signal total darkness to bipolar cells

49
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Adaptation

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Alters sensitivity to light, decreases sensitivity in response to bright light, increases sensitivity in responsive to dim light, controlled by Ca influx

50
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Which photoreceptors sensitivity increases due to convergence

51
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Rhodopsin in rods is composed of

A

Opsin + 11-cis-retinal

52
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Which one is the right pair?

A

L-cone and red/yellow light

53
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Which one is the beginning step of biochemical cascade of phototransuction

A

Photoisomerixation of rhodopsin

54
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Which one is a key molecule of biochemical cascade to keep CNG channel open

55
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Which one is a NT between rods and bipolar cells

Ocular Phys Block 11 (6 decks)

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