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Animal Rhodopsin as a Photoelectric Generator

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In 1964, Brown and Murakami1 recorded an electric potential from monkey retina by stimulating it with an intense light flash. This potential differed from other then known membrane potentials; the risetime was so fast that it exceeded the time resolution of existing recording devices. This electric signal was named the early receptor potential (ERP). The subsequent study of the light-induced events in the photoreceptor cells led to the understanding that the ERP develops too fast to be associated with postrhodopsin steps of the visual process (for review see Ref. 2). The amplitude of the intracellularly recorded ERP was no more than a few millivolts. Such a small magnitude of the photosignal made one regard the ERP as an epiphenomenon — a side-effect that cannot play a fundamental role in visual excitation.

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Ostrovsky, M.A. (1989). Animal Rhodopsin as a Photoelectric Generator. In: Hong, F.T. (eds) Molecular Electronics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-7482-8_21

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