Octopamine enhances dark-adaptation in Limulus ventral photoreceptors
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Octopamine enhances dark-adaptation in Limulus ventral photoreceptors.
Limulus ventral photoreceptors receive synaptic input from fibers that emerge from the brain and that appear to use octopamine as a transmitter. Exogenous application of octopamine has been shown to increase levels of intracellular cAMP in ventral photoreceptors, but the resulting physiological effects have been unclear. In this report, we show that octopamine increases the rate of dark-adaptat...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Neuroscience
سال: 1985
ISSN: 0270-6474,1529-2401
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.05-06-01490.1985