Sentences with phrase «phototransduction cascade»

Light perception takes place in the cone and rod photoreceptor cells of the retina, a structure at the back of the eye, through a set of proteins denominated phototransduction cascade proteins.

First, it serves to phagocytize and degrade proteins and lipids shed by photoreceptor OS discs, and second, it recycles the vitamin A chromophore necessary for the phototransduction cascade.