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Two alternatively spliced forms of the cGMP-gated channel alpha-subunit from cone photoreceptor are expressed in the chick pineal organ.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience - 1 Dec 1996
Bönigk W, Müller F, Middendorff R, Weyand I, Kaupp U B
Abstract excerpt
Light sensitivity of the pineal has been retained in most vertebrates, except mammals. Retinal photoreceptors and pinealocytes share common components of light-dependent signaling pathways. In particular, an ion channel gated by cGMP has been electrophysiologically identified in chick pinealocytes; however, the physiological function of a light-sensitive enzyme cascade is not known, and primary structures of only...
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