| 41. | At baseline in the dark, the rhodopsin absorbs no light and releases glutamate which inhibits the bipolar cell.
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| 42. | However, the lateral neurons receive light information through both the blue light CRY pathway and the rhodopsin pathway.
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| 43. | VAD affects vision by inhibiting the production of rhodopsin, the eye pigment responsible for sensing low light situations.
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| 44. | They appear to be distantly related to the mammalian T2R bitter taste receptors and the rhodopsin-like GPCRs.
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| 45. | The membrane of the rhabdomere is packed with about 100 million rhodopsin molecules, the visual protein that absorbs light.
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| 46. | The body synthesizes rhodopsin from vitamin A, which is why a deficiency in vitamin A causes poor night vision.
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| 47. | The bacteriorhodopsin protein is chemically very similar to the light-detecting pigment rhodopsin, found in the vertebrate retina.
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| 48. | Transducin is a G protein which upon GDP / GTP exchange in the transducin ? subunit catalyzed by photolyzed rhodopsin.
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| 49. | Proper expression of the wild-type rhodopsin gene is essential for the development and sustained function of photoreceptor cells.
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| 50. | This component senses the accumulation of rhodopsin and then engages the proper machinery to execute cell death in the retina.
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