NaCa or NaCaK exchange in rod photoreceptors
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Na-Ca or Na-Ca-K exchange in rod photoreceptors.
Remarkably dynamic Ca z ÷ fluxes control Ca 2 ÷ homeostasis in the outer segments of vertebrate rod photoreceptors (ROS). Ca 2 ÷ fluxes are believed to be carried by only two different membrane proteins embedded in the ROS plasma membrane; these two proteins as well as some of the other main molecular components of ROS are schematically depicted in Fig. 1. ROS are the sites of the process of vi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology
سال: 1989
ISSN: 0079-6107
DOI: 10.1016/0079-6107(89)90007-2