Submitting Campus
Daytona Beach
Department
Mathematics
Document Type
Article
Publication/Presentation Date
2007
Abstract/Description
Phototransduction is the process by which light is converted into an electrical response in retinal photoreceptors. Rod photoreceptors contain a stack of (about 1000) disc membranes packed with photopigment rhodopsin molecules, which absorb the photons. We present computational experiments which show the profound effect on the response of the distances (how many discs apart) photons happen to be absorbed at. This photon-distribution effect alone can account for much of the observed variability in response.
Publication Title
Electronic Journal of Differential Equations
Publisher
Texas State University
Sponsorship/Conference/Institution
Sixth Mississippi State Conference on Differential Equations and Computational Simulations
Grant or Award Name
NIH grant NIH-1-RO1- GM 68953-01
Scholarly Commons Citation
Sixth Mississippi State Conference on Differential Equations and Computational Simulations, Electronic Journal of Differential Equations, Conference 15 (2007), pp. 1–9. ISSN: 1072-6691. URL: http://ejde.math.txstate.edu or http://ejde.math.unt.edu
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Medical Biochemistry Commons, Numerical Analysis and Computation Commons, Partial Differential Equations Commons
