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Multiple Signaling Pathways Govern Calcium Homeostasis in Photoreceptor Inner Segments

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Tamas Szikra is presently at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland. We thank Prof. Paul Witkovsky (New York School of Medicine) for comments on the manuscript. The work was supported by a grant from the Hungarian Eötvös Fellowship and the Knights Templar Foundation (T.S.), by the National Institutes of Health (EY13870), and That Man May See Foundation to D.K. and an unrestricted grant from Research to Prevent Blindness to the University of Utah's Department of Ophthalmology. Also, Dr. Krizaj is a recipient of a Research to Prevent Blindness James S. Adams Award.

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Szikra, T., Krizaj, D. (2008). Multiple Signaling Pathways Govern Calcium Homeostasis in Photoreceptor Inner Segments. In: Tombran-Tink, J., Barnstable, C.J. (eds) Visual Transduction and Non-Visual Light Perception. Ophthalmology Research. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59745-374-5_9

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