pH and rate of 'dark' events in toad retinal rods: Test of a hypothesis on the molecular origin of photoreceptor noise

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 539, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 837-846

  Firsov, Mikhail L ^a   Donner, Kristian ^b   Govardovskii, Victor I ^a  

^a SECHENOV INSTITUTE OF EVOLUTIONARY PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEN; RHODOPSIN; SCHIFF BASE; VISUAL PIGMENT;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMATOPHORE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CYTOPLASM; HYPOTHESIS; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; MEMBRANE CURRENT; MICROSPECTROPHOTOMETRY; NONHUMAN; PERFUSION; PH; PHOTON; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETINA ROD; SENSORY SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; THERMAL STIMULATION; TOAD;

ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; BUFONIDAE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOTORECEPTORS; RHODOPSIN; RODS (RETINA); TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0037088842     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2001.013207     Document Type: Article

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