Julesz's demo inspired a young medical student, Jack Pettigrew (then at the University of California, Berkeley), to look at the
physiology of binocular
nerve cells in the earliest stage of binocular processing.
Abstract T - type calcium channels are key contributors to neuronal
physiology where they shape electrical activity of
nerve cells and contribute to the release of neurotransmitters.
Despite the elegance, simplicity and beauty of this principal, it is still unclear how the number of parasympathetic neurons is controlled and why only some of the
cells transported by
nerves are transformed into that which becomes an important part of the nervous system», says Igor Adameyko at the Department of
Physiology and Pharmacology who, together with Patrik Ernfors at the Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, is responsible for the study.