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Science 25 October 1968:
Vol. 162. no. 3852, pp. 456 - 458
DOI: 10.1126/science.162.3852.456
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A Role for the Sodium Pump in Photoreception in Limulus

T. G. Smith 1, W. K. Stell 1, J. E. Brown 2, J. A. Freeman 3, and G. C. Murray 1

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
3 Institute of Biomedical Research, Chicago, Illinois 60610

The membranes of photoreceptor cells in Limulus have an electrogenic sodium pump which contributes directly to membrane potential and whose activity is changed by light. These light-induced changes in pump activity underlie the receptor potential.


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