Quantitative model for the electric response of invertebrate and vertebrate photoreceptors.
We propose that the same mechanism which leads to light-adaptation in invertebrate photoreceptors is responsible for the excitation of the receptor potential in vertebrates. Several qualitative and quantitative features of the vertebrate receptor response support this hypothesis.
D000222:Adaptation, Physiological; D000818:Animals; D007448:Invertebrates / Q000502:physiology*; D008564:Membrane Potentials; D008954:Models, Biological; D010786:Photoreceptor Cells / Q000502:physiology*; D014714:Vertebrates / Q000502:physiology*