Evidence map›Paper›PMID 17618621›Full record

ReviewExperimental eye research2007

A novel cone visual cycle in the cone-dominated retina.

Albert Muniz, Elia T Villazana-Espinoza, Andrea L Hatch, Simon G Trevino, Donald M Allen, Andrew T C Tsin

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In one paragraph

Review in Experimental eye research, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
35citing papers in PubMed
2.3field-weighted citation impact, top 12% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

35 citing papers in PubMed, 56 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Choroideremia: Toward Regulatory Approval of Retinal Gene Therapy.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine · 2023
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  4. The molecular aspects of absorption and metabolism of carotenoids and retinoids in vertebrates.Biochimica et biophysica acta. Molecular and cell biology of lipids · 2020
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  10. Recent advances in the dark adaptation investigations.International journal of ophthalmology · 2015
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  13. Identification of the 11-cis-specific retinyl-ester synthase in retinal Müller cells as multifunctional O-acyltransferase (MFAT).Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2014
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  18. Regeneration of photopigment is enhanced in mouse cone photoreceptors expressing RPE65 protein.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2011
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  20. Distinct retinal deficits in a zebrafish pyruvate dehydrogenase-deficient mutant.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2010
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Albert MunizDepartment of Biology, University of Texas at San Antonio, One UTSA Circle, San Antonio, TX 78249, USA.
Elia T Villazana-Espinoza
Andrea L Hatch
Simon G Trevino
Donald M Allen
Andrew T C Tsin
The University of Texas at San Antonio · USHarvard University Press · USThe University of Texas of the Permian Basin · US

Funding

UTSA MBRS SCORE PROGRAMS06GM008194 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SAN ANTONIO · PI TSIN, ANDREW T C · 1989 to 2006
$17.4M
NIGMS NIH HHS GM08194NIGMS NIH HHS S06 GM008194
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The visual processing of humans is primarily reliant upon the sensitivity of cone photoreceptors to light during daylight conditions. This underscores the importance of understanding how cone photoreceptors maintain the ability to detect light. The vertebrate retina consists of a combination of both rod and cone photoreceptors. Subsequent to light exposure, both rod and cone photoreceptors are dependent upon the recycling of vitamin A to regenerate photopigments, the proteins responsible for detecting light. Metabolic processing of vitamin A in support of rod photopigment renewal, the so-called "rod visual cycle", is well established. However, the metabolic processing of vitamin A in support of cone photopigment renewal remains a challenge for characterization in the recently discovered "cone visual cycle". In this review we summarize the research that has defined the rod visual cycle and our current concept of the novel cone visual cycle. Here, we highlight the research that supports the existence of a functional cone-specific visual cycle: the identification of novel enzymatic activities that contribute to retinoid recycling, the observation of vitamin A recycling in cone-dominated retinas, and the localization of some of these activities to the Müller cell. In the opinions of the authors, additional research on the possible interactions between these two visual cycles in the duplex retina is needed to understand visual detection in the human retina.

Indexed as

AnimalsElectrophysiologyPigment Epithelium of EyeRetinal Cone Photoreceptor CellsRetinal PigmentsVision, OcularVitamin ARetinal PigmentsVitamin A

Identifiers

PMID17618621
PMCPMC2001262
OpenAlexW2141413841

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