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Can Vision Exist Without Somatosensation?

Manivannan Muniyandi¹ and Pawan Kumar Suresh²

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1. MIT, RLE
2. IIT Madras,

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Received 16 July 2009 14:23 UTC; Posted 17 July 2009

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Molecular Cell Biology, Neuroscience

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• Mechanosensation
• MS channels
• Vision
• visual perception

Abstract:

The interconnection between vision and somatosensation is already well-established and is further supplemented by the evolutionary link between eyes and photoreceptors, and the functional connection between photosensation and thermoreception. However, our analysis hypothesizes a possibility that vision is not just linked to somatosensation, but may not exist without somatosensation. Surprisingly, our photoreceptor itself needs somatosensory proteins for its functioning, and our entire visual pathway depends on somatosensory cues for its functioning.

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Muniyandi, Manivannan and Suresh, Pawan Kumar. Can Vision Exist Without Somatosensation?. Available from Nature Precedings <http://hdl.handle.net/10101/npre.2009.3436.1> (2009)

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