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THE EYE

PHOTORECEPTORS

RODS

CONES

RHODOPSIN

MECHANISM

VITAMIN A

DEFECTS OF THE EYE


Texts:

Biochemistry 5th edition Berg, Tymoczko, Stryer

Biochemistry 3rd edition Mathews, Van holde, Ahern

Graphics and Diagrams:

All the picture and graphics used have been taken without permission from the following sites:

Eye logo (as at top left of this page)

http://raq1.aminet.or.jp/~yasu/illustrations/face/eye.htm

Photoreceptor graphic picture:

http://66.219.200.140/anatomy.html

Rod cone distribution graph:

http://www.siggraph.org/education/materials/HyperVis/vision/retina.htm

Diagram of rod cell:

http://eyesite.cryst.bbk.ac.uk/page/rod.html

Moving eye gifs:

http://www.webdeveloper.com/animations/e.html

http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Network/1123/page11.html

Rod cone comparison picture on cone page:

http://www.udel.edu/Biology/Wags/histopage/modelspage/rodcone.GIF

Rotating 11-cis retinal:

http://www.ucmb.ulb.ac.be/MicroMol/bibmol/Biological/Metabolites/Others/

Carrot:

http://raq1.aminet.or.jp/~yasu/illustrations/vegetable/carrot.htm

Eye cataract:

http://www.isee2020.com/Cataract/Caterac.htm