Melanopsin, the photopigment of intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Membrane Transport and Signaling

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 228-237

  Provencio, Ignacio ^a   Warthen, Daniel M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELANOPSIN; MESSENGER RNA; OPSIN; VISUAL PIGMENT;

ARTICLE; CILIARY BODY; DEPOLARIZATION; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; HYPERPOLARIZATION; ILLUMINATION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MELANOPSIN GENE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; RETINA CONE; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETINA ROD; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 84879193990     PISSN: 2190460X     EISSN: 21904618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wmts.29     Document Type: Article

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