The Chemistry of Vision
- 3 December 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 218 (4576), 961-966
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.6291153
Abstract
The visual response is initiated by light reception and transduction into chemical and electrical energy in the outer-segment membranes of rod and cone cells. Recent research on the molecular events controlled by light has clarified the roles of some of the rod outer-segment biomolecules. These developments and the current unresolved questions are described.This publication has 63 references indexed in Scilit:
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