Summary: Neuron, Vol. 48, 387­401, November 3, 2005, Copyright ª2005 by Elsevier Inc. DOI 10.1016/j.neuron.2005.10.014
ReviewBeyond Counting Photons:
Trials and Trends in Vertebrate
Visual Transduction
Marie E. Burns1,
* and Vadim Y. Arshavsky2,
*
1
Center for Neuroscience and
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
University of California, Davis
Davis, California 95616
2
Departments of Ophthalmology and Neurobiology
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, North Carolina 27710
For over 30 years, photoreceptors have been an out-
standing model system for elucidating basic princi-
ples in sensory transduction and G protein signaling.
Recently, photoreceptors have become an equally at-

Source: Arshavsky, Vadim Y. - Department of Pharmacology, Duke University

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