...Ely Contreras; Alexis P. Nobleman; Phyllis R. Robinson; Tiffany M. Schmidt ABSTRACT Melanopsin is a visual pigment that is expressed in a small subset of intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (ipRGCs). It is involved in regulating non-image forming visual behaviors, such as circadian...

... of individual SCN cells suggests that the relationship between SCN activity and phase resetting cannot be quite as simple as suggested above. Hence, a subset of SCN cells (15–20%) seems to entirely lack melanopsin-driven responses, and a similar proportion shows very little cone-driven response ( Brown et al...

...Gary E. Baker; Willem J. de Grip; Michael Turton; Hans-Joachim Wagner; Russell G. Foster; Ron H. Douglas ABSTRACT Using immunohistochemistry and western blot analysis, we demonstrate that melanopsin is localised in cells around the central pore of lateral line neuromasts in the African clawed frog...

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