Photochemistry of retinal chromophore in mouse melanopsin

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 26, 2008, Pages 8861-8865

  Walker, Marquis T ^a   Brown, R Lane ^b   Cronin, Thomas W ^a   Robinson, Phyllis R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

11 cis retinal; Photoisomerization; Retinal ganglion cells

Indexed keywords

11 CIS RETINAL; MELANOPSIN; RHODOPSIN; OPSIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMATOPHORE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ILLUMINATION; IMMUNOMAGNETIC SEPARATION; ISOMERIZATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; RETINA GANGLION CELL; ANIMAL; CELL SEPARATION; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; RETINA; SPECTROSCOPY;

MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; CELL SEPARATION; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOMAGNETIC SEPARATION; MICE; OPSIN; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; RETINA; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 48249120391     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0711397105     Document Type: Article

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