Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0451192

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0451192

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Suction pipette measurements of mammalian rod photoreceptor recovery following intense bleaching exposures. The aim of this project is to discover the events and processes that prevent retinal photoreceptors from recovering instantaneously following the cessation of exposure to extremely bright illumination. Recordings will be made from single rod photoreceptors cells isolated from the mammalian retina. The work will uncover the relative roles of the 'photoproducts' created when rhodopsin absorbs light: e.g. intermediates such as metarhodopsin and opsin. The molecular knowledge obtained will help us to understand why it is that the visual system recovers so slowly after the eye has experienced very intense light.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2004

End Date: 31-12-2006

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $180,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Sensory Systems | Animal Physiology—Biophysics | Neurosciences

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Hearing, vision, speech and their disorders | Biological sciences |

Other Keywords

Animal Physiology—Biophysics | Biological sciences | Hearing, vision, speech and their disorders | Neurosciences | Sensory Systems

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