Normal and Abnormal Colour Vision*

Reflections on abnormal colour vision and theories of colour.

Historically, physiology is the daughter of pathology. Healthy people struggling with an overwhelming nature had no time to bother with the workings of their organs, and doctors-naturallywere always preoccupied with disease. For them the argument from malfunction to normal function has become almost second nature and the successes of this approach in such fields as neurology, endocrinology, and...

Five cricketers with abnormal colour vision.

Five cricketers with abnormal colour vision, all of whom had mild deuteranomaly, reported occasions when they had lost sight of the ball when the background was the green grass of the playing field or the green of grassy banks or trees surrounding the playing field. While these five cricketers demonstrate that mild deuteranomaly does not preclude playing cricket successfully at a competitive le...

Colour-Vision and Colour-Blindness

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reference electrode (3). The ionized calcium concentration of sequential retentates prepared by ultrafiltration of a human control serum increased with increasing protein concentration in a way consistent with Donnan theory (4, 5) when the analyzers’ standard reference-electrode liquid junctionswere used; however, the ionized calcium in the same retentates declined slightly with increasing prot...

L-cone pigment genes expressed in normal colour vision

To directly test the hypothesis that only two pigment genes are expressed from the X-chromosome array, we examined expressed M and L pigment gene sequences from > 100 male eye donors. In this sample, there were eight men who expressed high levels of more than one L pigment gene in addition to M pigment genes. The fact that these eyes expressed both L and M pigment genes at significant levels su...