Timing is everything: Direct measurement of retinol production in cones and rods

Journal of General Physiology

Volumn 128, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 147-148

  Sakmar, Thomas P ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RETINOL;

MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NOTE; RETINA CONE; RETINA ROD; VISION;

AMBYSTOMA; ANIMALS; CONES (RETINA); KINETICS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MICROSPECTROPHOTOMETRY; PHOTOBLEACHING; RETINAL PIGMENTS; RETINALDEHYDE; RODS (RETINA); TIME FACTORS; VITAMIN A;

EID: 33746637167     PISSN: 00221295     EISSN: 00221295     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1085/jgp.200609609     Document Type: Note

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