All-trans retinol in rod photoreceptor outer segments moves unrestrictedly by passive diffusion

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 91, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 4678-4689

  Wu, Qingqing ^a,b   Chen, Chunhe ^a   Koutalos, Yiannis ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FATTY ACID; PROTEIN; RETINAL; RETINOL; RHODOPSIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLEACHING; CELL ISOLATION; CELL MEMBRANE; CHROMATOPHORE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION; FLUORESCENCE; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LUNG DIFFUSION CAPACITY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; OUTER MEMBRANE; PH; PHOTORECEPTOR; RETINA ROD; RETINA ROD OUTER SEGMENT;

ANURA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33845411156     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.106.086728     Document Type: Article

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