Human infrared Vision is triggered by two-photon chromophore isomerization

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 50, 2014, Pages E5445-E5454

  Palczewska, Grazyna ^a   Vinberg, Frans ^b   Stremplewski, Patrycjusz ^c   Bircher, Martin P ^d   Salom, David ^e   Komar, Katarzyna ^c   Zhang, Jianye ^e   Cascella, Michele ^f   Wojtkowski, Maciej ^c   Kefalov, Vladimir J ^b   Palczewski, Krzysztof ^e  

^a Polgenix Inc   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NICOLAUS COPERNICUS UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^e CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Multiscale modeling; Rhodopsin; Transretinal electrophysiology; Two photon absorption; Visual pigment

Indexed keywords

RHODOPSIN; VISUAL PIGMENT;

ARTICLE; CHROMATOPHORE; COLOR VISION; EXCITATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFRARED RADIATION; ISOMERIZATION; LIGHT; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTORECEPTOR OUTER SEGMENT; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; ADULT; ANIMAL; BOVINE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; FEMALE; ISOMERISM; LASER; MALE; MOUSE; PHOTON; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RADIATION ABSORPTION; VISION;

MAMMALIA;

ABSORPTION, RADIATION; ADULT; ANIMALS; CATTLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFRARED RAYS; ISOMERISM; LASERS; MALE; MICE; PHOTONS; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS, VERTEBRATE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RHODOPSIN; VISION, OCULAR;

EID: 84919363340     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1410162111     Document Type: Article

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