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Molecular aspects of photoreceptor function

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 March 2009

Thomas G. Ebrey  and
Barry Honig
Thomas G. Ebrey
Affiliation:
Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Illinois Urbana, Illinois
Barry Honig
Affiliation:
Department of Physical Chemistry, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
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The description of the molecular processes which underlie visual excitation is the fundamental problem in understanding vision at the level of a single photoreceptor. Thus far only a general outline of photoreceptor function has emerged with little known about actual biochemical and biophysical mechanisms.

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Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics , Volume 8 , Issue 2 , May 1975 , pp. 129 - 184
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