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Article: Researchers use tadpoles to prove crucial protein moves inside eye cells.
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- Proteomics Weekly
- Article date:
- May 19, 2003
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2003 MAY 19 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- University of Florida (UF) researchers have obtained the first photographic proof that a protein crucial to vision moves inside eye cells in response to light, which may help explain how people and animals can see in a wide range of conditions.
Scientists say insight about the protein's movement could one day lead to better understanding diseases such as night blindness or macular degeneration, the leading cause of vision loss in Americans older than 65. The UF findings were published online in the journal Experimental Eye Research.
The protein, visual arrestin, regulates a chemical reaction responsible for ...