Current issues in invertebrate phototransduction: Second messengers and ion conductances

Molecular Neurobiology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 41-63

  O'Day, Peter M ^a   Bacigalupo, Juan ^b   Vergara, Cecilia ^b   Haab, Joan E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Ca2+; Calcium; Cyclic GMP; Drosophila; Ion channel; IP3; Limulus; Phosphoinositide; Photoreceptor; Rhabdom; Transduction

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CYCLIC GMP; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; ION CHANNEL; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL MEMBRANE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; INVERTEBRATE; METABOLISM; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SECOND MESSENGER;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CELL MEMBRANE; CYCLIC GMP; FEEDBACK; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; INVERTEBRATES; ION CHANNELS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOLS; PHOTORECEPTORS, INVERTEBRATE; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; SECOND MESSENGER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031195982     PISSN: 08937648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02740615     Document Type: Article

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