Functional analyses of rhodops in-related non-visual photopigments at molecular and neural levels.

许多动物感知光信号有视觉和非视觉功能。与视觉相反，非视觉光接受的神经机制和生理作用在很大程度上是未知的。本研究以一些非视觉光色素为研究对象，利用哺乳动物细胞表达系统和转基因技术探讨了非视觉光感受的分子和神经机制。因此，我们成功地建立了几个转基因斑马鱼系，为未来的非视觉光接受研究提供了基础。

Many animals sense light signals for visual and non-visual functions. On the contrary to the vision, which has been well investigated, the neural mechanism and physiological role of non-visual photoreception are largely unknown. In this study, we focused on some non-visual photopigments and investigated the molecular and neural mechanism of the non-visual photoreceptions by using mammalian cell expression system and transgenic technique. As results, we succeeded to establish several transgenic zebrafish lines for future studies on non-visual photoreception.