Quantal noise from human red cone pigment

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 565-571

  Fu, Yingbin ^a,b   Kefalov, Vladimir ^a,c   Luo, Dong Gen ^a   Xue, Tian ^a   Yau, King Wai ^a  

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

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

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPSIN; RHODOPSIN; VISUAL PIGMENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MOUSE; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NIGHT VISION; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETINA CONE;

ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONES (RETINA); DARK ADAPTATION; FEEDBACK, BIOCHEMICAL; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; ISOMERISM; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; OPSIN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PHOTONS; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 42649083664     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.2110     Document Type: Article

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