Gordon L Fain

Sensory Transduction

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Provides a comprehensive and up-to-date review of transduction in various sensory modalities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 192mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 808g
• ISBN-13: 9780198835028
• ISBN-10: 0198835027
• Artikelnr.: 57957338

Autorenporträt

Gordon L. Fain received his bachelors at Stanford and his PhD in Biophysics from Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Molecular and Cellular Physiology of Neurons (Harvard, 2014) and over 125 scientific articles on the physiology of vision. A Guggenheim Fellow and Fellow of AAAS, he is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of the Department of Ophthalmology at UCLA, where he continues to pursue an active program of research on the physiology of mammalian photoreceptors.

Inhaltsangabe

1: The senses
2: Mechanisms of sensation
3: Channels and electrical signals
4: Metabotropic signal transduction
5: Mechanoreceptors and touch
6: Hearing and hair cells
7: Chemoreception and the sense of smell
8: Taste
9: Photoreception
10: Extra sensory receptors