Octopus rhodopsin photoreversibility of a crude extract from whole retina over several weeks' duration

Biosensors and Bioelectronics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 61-65

  Ostrovsky, Michail A ^a   Weetall, Howard H ^b  

^a EMANUEL INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMICAL PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Octopus rhodopsin; Photoreversibility; Soluble cellular antioxidants

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANTS; MICELLES; PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PIGMENTS;

OCTOPUS RHODOPSIN; PHOTOREVERSIBILITY; SOLUBLE CELLULAR ANTIOXIDANTS;

BIOSENSORS;

BACTERIORHODOPSIN; RHODOPSIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; GENETICS; ILLUMINATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MICELLE; NONHUMAN; OCTOPUS; PH; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; RETINA;

EID: 0031935993     PISSN: 09565663     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0956-5663(97)00078-X     Document Type: Article

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