"Retinal Pigments" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Photosensitive protein complexes of varied light absorption properties which are expressed in the PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS. They are OPSINS conjugated with VITAMIN A-based chromophores. Chromophores capture photons of light, leading to the activation of opsins and a biochemical cascade that ultimately excites the photoreceptor cells.
| Descriptor ID |
D012168
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D23.767.930
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| Concept/Terms |
Retinal Pigments- Retinal Pigments
- Pigments, Retinal
- Visual Pigments
- Pigments, Visual
- Retinal Photoreceptor Pigments
- Photoreceptor Pigments, Retinal
- Pigments, Retinal Photoreceptor
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| 1994 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1995 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1997 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1998 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1999 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Retinal Pigments" by people in Profiles.
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SWS2 visual pigment evolution as a test of historically contingent patterns of plumage color evolution in warblers. Evolution. 2015 Feb; 69(2):341-56.
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Rayleigh matches in carriers of inherited color vision defects: the contribution from the third L/M photopigment. Vis Neurosci. 2008 May-Jun; 25(3):455-62.
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Trichromatic color vision with only two spectrally distinct photopigments. Nat Neurosci. 1999 Oct; 2(10):884-8.
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Relating color discrimination to photopigment genes in deutan observers. Vision Res. 1998 Nov; 38(21):3371-6.
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The visual photopigments of simple deuteranomalous trichromats inferred from color matching. Vision Res. 1997 May; 37(9):1115-27.
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Variation in color matching and discrimination among deuteranomalous trichromats: theoretical implications of small differences in photopigments. Vision Res. 1995 Sep; 35(18):2579-88.
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Individual differences in cone photopigments of normal trichromats measured by dual Rayleigh-type color matches. Vision Res. 1994 Feb; 34(3):367-76.