The Response Range of the Blue-cone Pathways: a Source of Vulnerability to Disease

Overview

Journal Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci

Specialty Ophthalmology

Date 1984 Jul 1

PMID 6735651

Citations 20

Authors

D C Hood

N I Benimoff

V C Greenstein

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Abstract

Retinal disease preferentially affects the sensitivity of the "blue"-cone pathways. This vulnerability to disease may be due, in part, to a more limited response range. A psychophysical technique, the probe-flash paradigm, was used to test this hypothesis. The data suggest that the S-cone pathways have a more limited response range than the L-cone pathways. Explanations for blue-cone vulnerability are discessed in the context of this finding.

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