Sensory stimulation evokes neuronal discharges that lead to the detection of a stimulus. However, the absence of a stimulus is also clearly behaviourally relevant if a decision about stimulus presence or absence is required. ...

Eryptosis, the suicidal death of erythrocytes, is characterized by erythrocyte shrinkage, membrane blebbing , cell membrane phospholipid scrambling with phosphatidilserine exposure at the red cell surface.

In hereditary eye diseases of the Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) type, rod photoreceptors degenerate in a mutation-dependent fashion, followed by mutation independent cone cell death. Until today, no adequate treatment is ...