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Photoreceptor Cells, Invertebrate

Known as: Invertebrate Photoreceptor Cell, Invertebrate Photoreceptor, Cells, Invertebrate Photoreceptor 
Specialized cells in the invertebrates that detect and transduce light. They are predominantly rhabdomeric with an array of photosensitive microvilli… Expand
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Photoreceptors

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2010
Review
2010
Phototransduction and the Evolution of Photoreceptors
Photoreceptors in metazoans can be grouped into two classes, with their photoreceptive membrane derived either from cilia or… Expand
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2010
2010
Metarhodopsin control by arrestin, light-filtering screening pigments, and visual pigment turnover in invertebrate microvillar photoreceptors
The visual pigments of most invertebrate photoreceptors have two thermostable photo-interconvertible states, the ground state… Expand
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2008
2008
Systems analysis of the single photon response in invertebrate photoreceptors
Photoreceptors of Drosophila compound eye employ a G protein-mediated signaling pathway that transduces single photons into… Expand
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2006
2006
Heterologous expression of bovine rhodopsin in Drosophila photoreceptor cells.
PURPOSE Vertebrate and invertebrate visual pigments are similar in amino acid sequence, structural organization, spectral… Expand
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1995
1995
Activation of light-dependent K+ channels in ciliary invertebrate photoreceptors involves cGMP but not the IP3/Ca2+ cascade
The activation of light-dependent K+ channels in ciliary photoreceptors from Pecten was investigated using intracellular dialysis… Expand
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1993
1993
On the molecular origin of photoreceptor noise
RETINAL photoreceptors are noisy. They generate discrete electrical events in the dark indistinguishable from those evoked by… Expand
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Highly Cited
1987
Highly Cited
1987
Coupling of photoexcited rhodopsin to inositol phospholipid hydrolysis in fly photoreceptors.
Fly photoreceptor membranes were used to test the effect on defined biochemical reactions of light and of compounds causing… Expand
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1986
1986
Light stimulates the rapid formation of inositol trisphosphate in squid retinas.
To test the hypothesis that inositol trisphosphate (InsP3) mediates adaptation and excitation in invertebrate photoreceptors, we… Expand
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1986
1986
Cyclic GMP is involved in the excitation of invertebrate photoreceptors
The hyperpolarizing receptor potential in vertebrate rod photo-receptors appears to be mediated by the second messenger, cyclic… Expand
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1980
1980
Diurnal changes of lysosome-related bodies in the crayfish photoreceptor cells
SummaryThe effect of illumination on the degradation of microvillar membrane in the invertebrate photoreceptor cell has been… Expand
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