Recovery kinetics of human rod phototransduction inferred from the two-branched a-wave saturation function

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 586-600

  Pepperberg, David R ^a   Birch, David G ^b   Hofmann, Klaus Peter ^c   Hood, Donald C ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^d Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHODIESTERASE; TRANSDUCIN;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; HUMAN; KINETICS; LIGHT; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA ROD; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STATISTICS;

HUMANS; KINETICS; LIGHT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOSPHORIC DIESTER HYDROLASES; RODS (RETINA); SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TRANSDUCIN;

EID: 0030096561     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.13.000586     Document Type: Article

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