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Nanosecond Laser Photolysis of Rhodopsin in Solution

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LIGHT absorption by the rhodopsin molecule initiates the visual process1–3. The absorption of light starts a series of consecutive reactions in which the system passes through a number of intermediates leading to the final products, opsin and all-trans retinal. Stages in the bleaching of rhodopsin are well known and believed to be associated with the electrical events in the retina

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    T. ROSENFELD, A. ALCHALAL & M. OTTOLENGHI

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ROSENFELD, T., ALCHALAL, A. & OTTOLENGHI, M. Nanosecond Laser Photolysis of Rhodopsin in Solution. Nature 240, 482–483 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1038/240482a0

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