Role of visual pigment properties in rod and cone phototransduction

Nature

Volumn 425, Issue 6957, 2003, Pages 526-531

  Kefalov, Vladimir ^a   Fu, Yingbin ^a   Marsh Amstrong, Nicholas ^a   Yau, King Wai ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLS; CONFORMATIONS; ISOMERIZATION; VISION;

PHOTOTRANSDUCTION;

PIGMENTS;

CYCLIC GMP; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; VISUAL PIGMENT;

BIOLOGY; VISION;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ISOMERISM; KINETICS; MEMBRANE CURRENT; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CONE; RETINA ROD; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CONES (RETINA); DARKNESS; HUMANS; ISOMERISM; KINETICS; LIGHT; MUTATION; PHOTONS; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; RETINAL PIGMENTS; RODS (RETINA); URODELA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

AMPHIUMA MEANS; ANIMALIA;

EID: 0141894860     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01992     Document Type: Article

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