An unusual cGMP pathway underlying depolarizing light response of the vertebrate parietal-eye photoreceptor

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 359-365

  Xiong, Wei Hong ^a   Solessio, Eduardo C ^b   Yau, King Wai ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC GMP; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; PHOSPHODIESTERASE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DARK ADAPTATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HYDROLYSIS; LIGHT; LIZARD; METABOLISM; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

ANIMALS; CYCLIC GMP; DARK ADAPTATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; HYDROLYSIS; LIGHT; LIZARDS; OCULAR PHYSIOLOGY; PHOSPHORIC DIESTER HYDROLASES; PHOTORECEPTORS;

EID: 33644671393     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn0998_359     Document Type: Article

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