Low aqueous solubility of 11-cis-retinal limits the rate of pigment formation and dark adaptation in salamander rods

Journal of General Physiology

Volumn 139, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 493-505

  Frederiksen, Rikard ^a   Boyer, Nicholas P ^b   Nickle, Benjamin ^c   Chakrabarti, Kalyan S ^c   Koutalos, Yiannis ^b   Crouch, Rosalie K ^b   Oprian, Daniel ^c   Cornwall, M Carter ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RETINAL; RETINOID; VISUAL PIGMENT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; DARK ADAPTATION; KINETICS; LIGHT; METABOLISM; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA ROD; SOLUBILITY; URODELA;

ANIMALS; CELL MEMBRANE; DARK ADAPTATION; KINETICS; LIGHT; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS, VERTEBRATE; RETINAL PIGMENTS; RETINAL ROD PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; RETINALDEHYDE; RETINOIDS; SOLUBILITY; URODELA;

EID: 84864015879     PISSN: 00221295     EISSN: 15407748     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1085/jgp.201110685     Document Type: Article

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