Publications by authors named "M Carmen Morillo"
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- Rhodopsin is a crucial protein for vision in low-light conditions, and mutations can lead to retinal diseases like retinitis pigmentosa, often by reducing the protein's stability.
- Researchers studied the effects of the anticonvulsant retigabine on rhodopsin's thermal stability and functionality using spectroscopic methods.
- The findings show that retigabine improves rhodopsin's thermal stability and chromophore regeneration without interfering with the overall phototransduction process, suggesting its potential as a treatment for retinal degenerative diseases linked to rhodopsin mutations.
A study of the effect of thermal dissipation on quantum reinforcement learning is performed. For this purpose, a nondissipative quantum reinforcement learning protocol is adapted to the presence of thermal dissipation. Analytical calculations as well as numerical simulations are carried out, obtaining evidence that dissipation does not significantly degrade the performance of the quantum reinforcement learning protocol for sufficiently low temperatures, in some cases even being beneficial.
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- Trace metals, like zinc, are crucial for various biochemical processes in human vision, but research on their direct effects on rhodopsin is limited.
- The study analyzed the impact of metal ions (iron, copper, chromium, manganese, and nickel) on the stability of rhodopsin using spectroscopic methods.
- Results indicated that copper hindered rhodopsin regeneration and retinal release, while iron enhanced the thermal stability of rhodopsin's inactive form, highlighting the significance of trace metals in retinal health and potential new treatments for retinal diseases.
In this paper we bring out the existence of a kind of synchronization associated with the size of a complex system. A dichotomic random jump process associated with the dynamics of an externally driven stochastic system with N coupled units is constructed. We define an output frequency and phase diffusion coefficient.
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