Transient membrane shedding in Limulus photoreceptors: control mechanisms under natural lighting
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Transient membrane shedding in Limulus photoreceptors: control mechanisms under natural lighting.
Photoreceptors of the Limulus lateral eye shed their light-sensitive membranes (rhabdoms) in a burst early each morning when the animal is maintained in natural lighting. This shedding burst produces a cloud of multivesicular bodies which coalesce and migrate away from the rhabdom. Within 24 hr, these gradually collapse to combination bodies and ultimately to lamellar bodies. Light initiates th...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Neuroscience
سال: 1984
ISSN: 0270-6474,1529-2401
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.04-11-02792.1984