The energetic cost of photoreception in retinal rods of mammals

Archives Italiennes de Biologie

Volumn 135, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 95-109

  Demontis, G G ^a   Longoni, B ^a   Gargini, C ^a   Cervetto, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ENERGY COST; GUINEA PIG; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; RETINA ROD;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ENERGY METABOLISM; GUINEA PIGS; LIGHT; MALE; RODS (RETINA); TEMPERATURE; VISION;

EID: 0030942206     PISSN: 00039829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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