Residual cone vision without α-transduction

Journal of Vision

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Stockman, Andrew ^a   Smithson, Hannah E ^b   Michaelides, Michel ^c   Moore, Anthony T ^c   Webster, Andrew R ^c   Sharpe, Lindsay T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c MOORFIELDS EYE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Critical flicker fusion; Dark adaptation; Equivalent background; Flicker sensitivity; Photopigment bleaching; Transducin; Transduction cascade

Indexed keywords

TRANSDUCIN; VISUAL PIGMENT;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLEACHING; CRITICAL FLICKER FUSION; DARK ADAPTATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; LIGHT; MALE; MUTATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REACTION TIME; RETINA CONE; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY;

DARK ADAPTATION; FLICKER FUSION; HUMANS; LIGHT; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; PHOTOBLEACHING; REACTION TIME; RETINAL CONE PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; RETINAL PIGMENTS; TRANSDUCIN; VISION, OCULAR; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 33947687785     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/7.4.8     Document Type: Article

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