Protozoa as model system for studies of sensory light transduction: Photophobic response in the ciliate Stentor and Blepharisma

Acta Protozoologica

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 171-181

  Fabczak, H ^a  

^a NENCKI INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Blepharisma japonicum; cGMP; cGMP dependent ion channels; Ciliates; G protein; InsP3 photophobic response; Membrane potentials; Photoreceptor system; Phototransduction; Stentor coeruleus

Indexed keywords

CHROMATOPHORE; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GUANOSINE PHOSPHATE; HYPERICIN; PHOTOACTIVATION; PHOTOPHOBIC RESPONSE; PLANT MODEL; SENSORY LIGHT TRANSDUCTION; STENTORIN;

BLEPHARISMA; BLEPHARISMA JAPONICUM; STENTOR; STENTOR COERULEUS;

EID: 0033850027     PISSN: 00651583     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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