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Dark Adaptation

Known as: ocular dark adaptation, night vision, Adaptation, Dark 
The process by which the rods of the retina gradually become fully responsive to dim light when no longer exposed to bright light. [GOC:hjd, http… 
National Institutes of Health

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Adaptation, OcularSensory AdaptationVisual Perceptionretinal adaptation
Light AdaptationNight VisionRod Photoreceptorsaspects of radiation effects

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Highly Cited
1984
Highly Cited
1984
Phosphorylation in sealed rod outer segments: effects of cyclic nucleotides.
Rod outer segments (ROS) from rat were purified on Percoll gradients. These ROS had intact plasma membranes since they were… 
1980
1980
Correlation of dark adaptation test results with serum vitamin A levels in diseased adults.
Dark adaptation, is a reliable and highly reproducible indicator of vitamin A nutritional status in terms of function. Abnormal… 
1965
1965
Evoked response of the human visual cortex: Spectral sensitivity
Responses evoked by visual stimuli were recorded from the human scalp over the visual cortex. At low intensities response… 
Highly Cited
1964
Highly Cited
1964
ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL STUDIES IN EARLY RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA.
Introduction Because of the wide variety of patterns exhibited both genetically and clinically, retinitis pigmentosa may be… 
1955
1955
Modification of the Amplitude of the Human Electro-Oculogram by Light and Dark Adaptation *
WHEN an electrode is placed on the cornea and another near the posterior pole of the eye (or elsewhere on the body) a standing… 
1954
1954
Effect of different pre-adapting luminances on the resolution of visual detail during dark adaptation.
  • J. L. Brown
  • Journal of the Optical Society of America
  • 1954
  • Corpus ID: 42520126
Luminance thresholds for the resolution of various widths of grating line were determined during dark adaptation following light… 
1951
1951
Dark adaptation in perimetrically blind fields.
THE COMMONLY accepted theory of dark adaptation relates the threshold for light perception to the concentration of visual purple… 
Highly Cited
1945
Highly Cited
1945
PROLONGED POST-TRAUMATIC SYNDROMES FOLLOWING HEAD INJURY
1. A series of 125 late post-traumatic syndromes have been compared to 70 cases with acute head injuries, 30 cases with brain… 
1940
1940
CLINICAL EVALUATION OF TESTS OF DARK ADAPTATION
The tests which are commonly employed for estimating visual function are carried out with the light-adapted patient. The acuity… 
Review
1937
Review
1937
The use of a dark adaptation technique (biophotometer) in the measurement of vitamin A deficiency in children.
Evidence in recent literature indicates an increasing appreciation of the need, in practical nutrition work, for tests for the…