"Retinal Pigments" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Photosensitive protein complexes of varied light absorption properties which are expressed in the PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS. They are OPSINS conjugated with VITAMIN A-based chromophores. Chromophores capture photons of light, leading to the activation of opsins and a biochemical cascade that ultimately excites the photoreceptor cells.
| Descriptor ID |
D012168
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D23.767.930
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| Concept/Terms |
Retinal Pigments- Retinal Pigments
- Pigments, Retinal
- Visual Pigments
- Pigments, Visual
- Retinal Photoreceptor Pigments
- Photoreceptor Pigments, Retinal
- Pigments, Retinal Photoreceptor
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| 1998 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2001 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Retinal Pigments" by people in Profiles.
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Dimerization of visual pigments in vivo. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2016 08 09; 113(32):9093-8.
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Embryonic staging system for the short-tailed fruit bat, Carollia perspicillata, a model organism for the mammalian order Chiroptera, based upon timed pregnancies in captive-bred animals. Dev Dyn. 2005 Jul; 233(3):721-38.
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A visual pigment expressed in both rod and cone photoreceptors. Neuron. 2001 Nov 08; 32(3):451-61.
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Salamander UV cone pigment: sequence, expression, and spectral properties. Vis Neurosci. 2001 May-Jun; 18(3):393-9.
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Molecular genetics of spectral tuning in New World monkey color vision. J Mol Evol. 1998 Jun; 46(6):697-702.
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Peropsin, a novel visual pigment-like protein located in the apical microvilli of the retinal pigment epithelium. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 Sep 02; 94(18):9893-8.
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Sensitization of bleached rod photoreceptors by 11-cis-locked analogues of retinal. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1990 Sep; 87(17):6823-7.
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Activation of Chlamydomonas rhodopsin in vivo does not require isomerization of retinal. Biochemistry. 1989 Jan 24; 28(2):819-24.
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Proceedings: Autoradiographic and radiobiochemical studies on the incorporation of (6-3H)glucosamine into frog rhodopsin. Exp Eye Res. 1974 Mar; 18(3):225-40.
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Rhodopsin biosynthesis in vitro. Biochemistry. 1973 May 08; 12(10):1996-2003.