A “Melanopic” Spectral Efficiency Function Predicts the Sensitivity of Melanopsin Photoreceptors to Polychromatic Lights

@article{Enezi2011AS,
  title={A “Melanopic” Spectral Efficiency Function Predicts the Sensitivity of Melanopsin Photoreceptors to Polychromatic Lights},
  author={Jazi al Enezi and Victoria Revell and Timothy Matthew Brown and Jonathan Wynne and Luc Schlangen and Robert James Lucas},
  journal={Journal of Biological Rhythms},
  year={2011},
  volume={26},
  pages={314 - 323}
}
Photoreception in the mammalian retina is not restricted to rods and cones but extends to a small number of intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells expressing the photopigment melanopsin. These mRGCs are especially important contributors to circadian entrainment, the pupil light reflex, and other so-called nonimage-forming (NIF) responses. The spectral sensitivity of melanopsin phototransduction has been addressed in several species by comparing responses to a range of monochromatic… 
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