The roles of trp and calcium in regulating photoreceptor function in Drosophila

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 459-466

  Minke, Baruch ^a   Selinger, Zvi ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; INOSITOL; RECEPTOR PROTEIN;

CALCIUM TRANSPORT; DROSOPHILA; GENE MUTATION; LIGHT ADAPTATION; MEMBRANE CHANNEL; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PERMEABILITY; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR POTENTIAL; REVIEW;

EID: 0030218120     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-4388(96)80050-X     Document Type: Article

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