The color purple: Milestones in photochemistry

FASEB Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 4038-4043

  Ripps, Harris ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^b MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

11 CIS RETINAL; OPSIN; RETINAL; RETINOL; RETINOL DEHYDROGENASE; RHODOPSIN;

FROG; HUMAN; ISOMERIZATION; NIGHT VISION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHOTORECEPTOR; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; VISION;

ANIMALS; COLOR VISION; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; RETINA; RHODOPSIN;

EID: 57349177964     PISSN: 08926638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1096/fj.08-1202ufm     Document Type: Review

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