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Opsins

Known as: Opsin, Opsins [Chemical/Ingredient] 
Photosensitive proteins in the membranes of PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS such as the rods and the cones. Opsins have varied light absorption properties and… 
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Review
2018
Review
2018
Visceral pain – Novel approaches for optogenetic control of spinal afferents
2008
2008
Late proliferation and photoreceptor differentiation in the transforming lamprey retina
2002
2002
Opsin-G11-Mediated Signaling Pathway for Photic Entrainment of the Chicken Pineal Circadian Clock
Light is a major environmental signal for entrainment of the circadian clock, but little is known about the intracellular… 
Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
A deep brain photoreceptive molecule in the toad hypothalamus
Review
1996
Review
1996
Molecular evolution of retinal and nonretinal opsins
Vision and the circadian rhythms of various biological functions are triggered by phototransduction. The retinal and nonretinal… 
Highly Cited
1996
Highly Cited
1996
The Effects of Amino Acid Replacements of Glycine 121 on Transmembrane Helix 3 of Rhodopsin*
Rhodopsin is a member of a family of G protein-coupled receptors with seven transmembrane (TM) helices. In rhodopsin, Gly121 is a… 
Review
1995
Review
1995
Photoactivated state of rhodopsin and how it can form.
Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
Structure and function in rhodopsin. Separation and characterization of the correctly folded and misfolded opsins produced on expression of an opsin mutant gene containing only the native intradiscal…
Previous mutagenesis studies have indicated the requirement of a tertiary structure in the intradiscal region with a disulfide… 
1993
1993
Primary structure of crayfish visual pigment deduced from cDNA
1965
1965
On the Colors of Visual Pigment Chromophores
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