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The Transduction Channels of Rod and Cone Photoreceptors

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Visual Transduction and Non-Visual Light Perception

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Notes

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    aThe human genome is comprised of six different CNG channel genes: CNGA1–4, CNGB1, and CNGB3. CNGA2, CNGA4, and CNGB1 encode for the CNG channel in olfactory receptor neurons. CNGB2 has not been assigned.

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