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Science 15 February 1974:
Vol. 183. no. 4125, pp. 658 - 659
DOI: 10.1126/science.183.4125.658
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Ionic Basis of Hyperpolarizing Receptor Potential in Scallop Eye: Increase in Permeability to Potassium Ions

John S. McReynolds 1 and A. L. F. Gorman 2

1 Laboratory of Neurophysiology, National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke, Bethesda, Maryland 20014
2 Department of Physiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts 02118

Photoreceptors of the distal retina of the scallop respond to light with a large hyperpolarizing receptor potential which is caused by a selective increase in permeability to potassium ions.


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