Sensory Transduction

List of contents

• 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

About the author

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.

Summary

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

Product details

• Authors: Gordon L. Fain, Gordon L. (Distinguished Professor Emeritus Fain, Fain Gordon L.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.10.2019
• EAN: 9780198835028
• ISBN: 978-0-19-883502-8
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Miscellaneous; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / General, Evolution, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Neuroscience, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biochemistry, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Cell Biology, biochemistry, Zoology & animal sciences, Neurosciences, Cellular biology (cytology), Zoology and animal sciences, Evolution / Evolutionary biology