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Science 8 June 1962:
Vol. 136. no. 3519, pp. 877 - 879
DOI: 10.1126/science.136.3519.877
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Effect of Background Illumination on the Retinal Action Potential

Ken-ichi Naka 1 and Eisuke Eguchi 1

1 Department of Biology, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

A study of the relation between the membrane potential and the amplitude of the slow component of the retinal action potential obtained from inside a single insect photoreceptor cell suggests that the slow component is equivalent to the change in the membrane potential caused by background illumination.

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