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Ion Fluxes in Disk Membranes of Retinal Rod Outer Segments

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THE process of transduction in vision is that mechanism whereby absorption of light by a photoreceptor cell in the retina results in a polarisation of the receptor cell membrane, excitation of the cell, and the eventual generation of a neural impulse to the brain from higher order neurones. It is already well known that the initial and primary process in vision is the absorption of photons by 1l-cis retinal and concomitant isomerisation of the visual pigment to all-trans retinal. We have therefore studied events resulting from this photoisomerisation, events which provide a link between the absorption of light and the excitation of the receptor cell.

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MASON, W., FAGER, R. & ABRAHAMSON, E. Ion Fluxes in Disk Membranes of Retinal Rod Outer Segments. Nature 247, 562–563 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1038/247562a0

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