Vitamin A activates rhodopsin and sensitizes it to ultraviolet light

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 485-497

  Miyazono, Sadaharu ^a,c   Isayama, Tomoki ^a   Delori, François C ^b   Makino, Clint L ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b SCHEPENS EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c ASAHIKAWA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Allosteric regulation; Electrophysiology; GPCR; Retinal photoreceptors; Retinol

Indexed keywords

BETA IONONE; OPSIN; RETINOL; RHODOPSIN; VISUAL PIGMENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHROMATOPHORE; MICROSPECTROPHOTOMETRY; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; SALAMANDER; SENSITIZATION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; LARVA; LIGHT; PROTEIN BINDING; RETINA; RETINAL ROD PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; RHODOPSIN; ROD CELL OUTER SEGMENT; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; URODELA; VITAMIN A; VITAMINS;

EID: 84555218599     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: 14698714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523811000423     Document Type: Article

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