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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****...
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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...
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photoreceptive ganglion cells may have some
visual function in humans. The
photopigment of
photoreceptive ganglion cells, melanopsin, is
excited by
light mainly...
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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...
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different between rod and cone
cells and
results from the
regeneration of
photopigments to
increase retinal sensitivity.
Light adaptation, in contrast, works...
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intrinsically photosensitive.
Hattar concluded that
melanopsin is the
photopigment in a
small subset of RGCs that
contributes to the
intrinsic photosensitivity...
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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...
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certain wavelength of
light by
initiating a
signal transduction cascade Photopigment, an
unstable pigment that
undergoes a
physical or
chemical change upon...
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Photopigment basis for
dichromatic color vision in cows,
goats and sheep". Vis. Neurosci...
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photopigment,
which is
embedded in the
membrane of the lamellae; a
single human rod
contains approximately 10
million of them. The
photopigment molecules...
