Melanopsin and Rod-cone photoreceptors play different roles in mediating pupillary light responses during exposure to continuous light in humans

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 41, 2012, Pages 14242-14253

  Gooley, Joshua J ^a,b,c   Mien, Ivan Ho ^d   St Hilaire, Melissa A ^b,c   Yeo, Sing Chen ^e   Chua, Eric Chern Pin ^a   van Reen, Eliza ^b,c   Hanley, Catherine J ^b   Hull, Joseph T ^b,c   Czeisler, Charles A ^b,c   Lockley, Steven W ^b,c  

^a DUKE NUS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Singapore)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^e NATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELANOPSIN;

ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; DARK ADAPTATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIGHT ADAPTATION; LIGHT EXPOSURE; LIGHT INTENSITY; LIGHT IRRADIANCE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUPIL; PUPIL REFLEX; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETINA CONE; RETINA ROD; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ADAPTATION, OCULAR; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PUPIL; REFLEX, PUPILLARY; RETINAL CONE PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; RETINAL ROD PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; ROD OPSINS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84867256173     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1321-12.2012     Document Type: Article

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