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Rod Cell Outer Segment

Known as: Outer segment of rod cell, Rod outer segment, Outer Segments, Rod 
A portion of the retinal rod cell largely consisting of a stack of discs (membrane infoldings that are incompletely separated in cones) that are… 
National Institutes of Health

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Rod Photoreceptors

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Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
Protein rotational diffusion and lipid/protein interactions in recombinants of bovine rhodopsin with saturated diacylphosphatidylcholines of different chain lengths studied by conventional and…
Bovine rhodopsin has been reconstituted in seven different saturated diacylphosphatidylcholine species of odd and even chain… 
Highly Cited
1991
Highly Cited
1991
Calcium-dependent regulation of cyclic GMP phosphodiesterase by a protein from frog retinal rods
INvertebrate photoreceptors, light reduces cyclic GMP concentration and closes cGMP-activated channels to induce a… 
Highly Cited
1991
Highly Cited
1991
Methylation and demethylation reactions of guanine nucleotide-binding proteins of retinal rod outer segments.
Retinal transducin was previously shown to be farnesylated on its gamma subunit. This farnesylation reaction on a cysteine… 
Highly Cited
1991
Highly Cited
1991
The cGMP-gated channel of the rod photoreceptor cell characterization and orientation of the amino terminus.
Highly Cited
1990
Highly Cited
1990
Molecular cloning, primary structure, and orientation of the vertebrate photoreceptor cell protein peripherin in the rod outer segment disk membrane.
Peripherin, a 39-kDa membrane protein, has been previously localized to the rim region of the vertebrate rod photoreceptor disk… 
Highly Cited
1987
Highly Cited
1987
Acylation of disc membrane rhodopsin may be nonenzymatic.
Highly Cited
1982
Highly Cited
1982
Characterization of bovine rod outer segment G-protein.
Highly Cited
1982
Highly Cited
1982
Surfaces of rod photoreceptor disk membranes: integral membrane components
The membrane surfaces within the rod outer segment of the toad, Bufo marinus, were exposed by rapid-freezing followed by freeze… 
Highly Cited
1976
Highly Cited
1976
Rhodopsin in the rod outer segment plasma membrane
Isolated frog retinas were incubated in vitro with a 4-h pulse of [3H]leucine, then chased for 32 h with a nonradioactive amino… 
Highly Cited
1963
Highly Cited
1963
The problem of visual excitation.
This paper attempts to come to grips with the problem, how the action of light on a visual pigment results in a nervous… 
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