The Python pit organ: Imaging and immunocytochemical analysis of an extremely sensitive natural infrared detector

Biosensors and Bioelectronics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 53-59

  Grace, Michael S ^a   Church, Don R ^a   Kelly, Christopher T ^b   Lynn, William F ^c   Cooper, Thomas M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b 207 Russ Engineering Center   (United States)

^c Systems Research Lab Inc   (United States)

^d AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Calcium binding proteins; Detector; Imaging; Infrared; Photoreceptor; Snake

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOLOGY; INFRARED DETECTORS; INFRARED IMAGING; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT EMISSION; PROTEINS;

IMMUNOCYTOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; NEURONS; PHOTORECEPTORS;

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS;

CALCIUM BINDING PROTEIN; OPSIN;

ARTICLE; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; INFRARED RADIATION; NONHUMAN; ORGAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; RECEPTOR DENSITY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SNAKE; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; BOIDAE; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFRARED RAYS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; OPSIN; PHOTORECEPTORS, VERTEBRATE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

PYTHON MOLURUS; PYTHON REGIUS; SERPENTES;

EID: 0032926121     PISSN: 09565663     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0956-5663(98)00101-8     Document Type: Article

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