Measurement of thermal contribution to photoreceptor sensitivity

Nature

Volumn 403, Issue 6766, 2000, Pages 220-223

  Koskelalnen, Ari ^a   Ala Laurila, Petri ^a   Fyhrquist, Manna ^b   Donner, Kristian ^b  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RHODOPSIN; VISUAL PIGMENT;

AMPHIBIA; ARTICLE; CHROMATOPHORE; FROG; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; VISION;

ANIMALS; BUFO BUFO; CONES (RETINA); ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; ENERGY METABOLISM; PHOTORECEPTORS, VERTEBRATE; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; RANA TEMPORARIA; RETINAL PIGMENTS; RHODOPSIN; RODS (RETINA); TEMPERATURE; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA;

EID: 0034642554     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35003242     Document Type: Article

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