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EXCITATION AND ADAPTATION IN LIMULUS VENTRAL PHOTORECEPTORS
Author(s) -
Brown Joel E.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
photochemistry and photobiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.818
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1751-1097
pISSN - 0031-8655
DOI - 10.1111/j.1751-1097.1980.tb03801.x
Subject(s) - limulus , adaptation (eye) , excitation , voltage clamp , biology , optics , neuroscience , physics , electrophysiology , paleontology , quantum mechanics
— Currents induced by illumination can be recorded from Limulus ventral photoreceptors by a voltage‐clamp technique. Several assumptions underlying the analysis of these currents are discussed and recent experiments designed to examine these assumptions are reviewed.