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Science 25 October 1968:
Vol. 162. no. 3852, pp. 454 - 456
DOI: 10.1126/science.162.3852.454
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Conductance Changes Associated with Receptor Potential in Limulus Photoreceptors

T. G. Smith 1, W. K. Stell 1, and J. E. Brown 2

1 Laboratory of Neurophysiology, National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20014
2 Department of Biology and Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 02139

The receptor potential in Limulus photoreceptors appears to be a consequence not of permeability changes in the cell membrane but of alterations in a light-sensitive constant-current generator.


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