Definition of Photopigment. Meaning of Photopigment. Synonyms of Photopigment

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- Photopigments are unstable pigments that undergo a chemical change when they absorb light. The term is generally applied to the non-protein chromop****...
- scotopic vision. This dominance is due to the increased sensitivity of the photopigment molecule expressed in rods, as opposed to those in cones. Rods signal...
- intrinsically photosensitive. Hattar concluded that melanopsin is the photopigment in a small subset of RGCs that contributes to the intrinsic photosensitivity...
- study suggests that as many as 50% of women and 8% of men may have four photopigments and corresponding increased chromatic discrimination, compared to trichromats...
- different between rod and cone cells and results from the regeneration of photopigments to increase retinal sensitivity. Light adaptation, in contrast, works...
- a photopigment, which is embedded in the membrane of the lamellae; a single human rod contains approximately 10 million of them. The photopigment molecules...
- photoreceptive ganglion cells may have some visual function in humans. The photopigment of photoreceptive ganglion cells, melanopsin, is excited by light mainly...
- certain wavelength of light by initiating a signal transduction cascade Photopigment, an unstable pigment that undergoes a physical or chemical change upon...
- Melanopsin is a type of photopigment belonging to a larger family of light-sensitive retinal proteins called opsins and encoded by the gene Opn4. In the...
- cyanobacteria. Eukaryotic photoautotrophs absorb photonic energy through the photopigment chlorophyll (a porphyrin derivative) in their endosymbiont chloroplasts...