title: [Visual transduction and calcium ions].
abstract: A general scheme of visual induction and its regulation in mammalian retinal rods and the main signal proteins involved in the functioning of the visual signaling apparatus were considered. The role of calcium ions and calcium-binding proteins in the switching off of the visual signal and the transition of the photoreceptor cell from a photoexcited to a "dark" state was discussed in detail.
authors.affiliation: Belozerskii Research Institute of Physicochemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Vorob'evy Gory, Moscow, 119992 Russia.
authors.forename: K E
authors.initials: KE
authors.lastname: Komolov
authors.forename: I I
authors.initials: II
authors.lastname: Senin
authors.forename: P P
authors.initials: PP
authors.lastname: Filippov
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002118:Calcium / Q000502:physiology*; D002135:Calcium-Binding Proteins / Q000502:physiology; D002413:Cations, Divalent; D008322:Mammals; D020419:Photoreceptor Cells, Vertebrate / Q000502:physiology*; D017948:Retinal Rod Photoreceptor Cells / Q000502:physiology; D014785:Vision, Ocular / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D002135:Calcium-Binding Proteins; D002413:Cations, Divalent; D002118:Calcium