Membrane current of retinal rods of Caudiverbera caudiverbera (Amphibia: Leptodactylidae): Dark noise, spectral and absolute light sensitivity

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 663-673

  Palma, Francisco ^a   Roncagliolo, Pablo ^a   Bacigalupo, Juan ^b   Palacios, Adrián G ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE VALPARAÍSO   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Anura; Caudiverbera caudiverbera; Dark noise; Rod photoreceptor; Spectral sensitivity; Visual transduction

Indexed keywords

PORPHYROPSIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VISUAL PIGMENT;

AMBYSTOMA; AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAUDIVERBERA CAUDIVERBERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DARKNESS; FROG; ISOMERISM; KINETICS; MEMBRANE CURRENT; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA ROD OUTER SEGMENT; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; DARKNESS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; KINETICS; LIGHT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; REACTION TIME; RODS (RETINA); XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0035702651     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523801184166     Document Type: Article

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