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Science 5 November 1971:
Vol. 174. no. 4009, pp. 598 - 600
DOI: 10.1126/science.174.4009.598
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Light Adaptation in the Rat Retina: Evidence for Two Receptor Mechanisms

Daniel G. Green 1

1 Vision Research Laboratory, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48104

Light adapting the rat retina with transient white flashes too dim to bleach a substantial amount of visual pigment produces a change in electroretinogram spectral sensitivity and an increase in flicker fusion frequency. Increment threshold curves obtained with a long wavelength adapting stimulus and a short wavelength test stimulus show rod saturation.


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