Red, green, and red-green hybrid pigments in the human retina: Correlations between deduced protein sequences and psychophysically measured spectral sensitivities

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 23, 1998, Pages 10053-10069

  Sharpe, Lindsay T ^a   Stockman, Andrew ^b   Jägle, Herbert ^a   Knau, Holger ^a   Klausen, Gert ^c   Reitner, Andreas ^d   Nathans, Jeremy ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^d Universitäts Augenklinik   (Austria)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cone pigments; Human retina; Protein sequences; Red green color blindness; Spectral sensitivity; Visual pigments

Indexed keywords

VISUAL PIGMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR BLINDNESS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CONE; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; X CHROMOSOME LINKED DISORDER;

EID: 0032402112     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.18-23-10053.1998     Document Type: Article

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