Plasticity and Differentiation of Retinal Precursor Cells

摘要: Publisher Summary This chapter describes plasticity and differentiation of retinal precursor cells. Retinal photoreceptors are unique cells, whose high degree specialization can be recognized in their shape organization, the presence many proteins, physiological activities. Visual perception is based on cortical processing neurochemical signals generated within retina response to light entering eye from external world. The cells that set this visual process motion by transducing into signals. Most vertebrate retinas have two major photoreceptor subtypes, rods cones, which share features but also distinctive structural, chemical, functional differences. One most remarkable aspects isolated culture capacity develop maintain, even when grown absence intercellular contacts, a highly elongated, compartmentalized, polarized pattern organization.