opsin

IPA: ˈɑpsʌn

Examples of "opsin" in Sentences

We vertebrates have ciliary cells, c-opsin, and a phosphodiesterase pathway.
Genetic evidence for selective transport of opsin and arrestin by kinesin-II in mammalian photoreceptors.
I had a feeling that my Irish in-laws have a long wavelength opsin and special photoreceptors to allow them to see how hot their tea is.
The gene, called opsin, is present in vision among vertebrate animals, and is responsible for a different way of seeing than that of animals like flies.
Invertebrates have rhabodomeric cells that use a special version of the photopigment called r-opsin, and activate cells by a particular pathway called a phospholipase-C cascade.
Our complex eyes clearly evolved from the simpler eyes in ancestral species, and the presence of the critical light-receptive pigment called “opsin” in all animals highlights this shared ancestry.
Nevertheless in that period, after dissecting retinas from 300 frogs, he found that rhodopsin on stimulation with light yielded both the protein opsin and a compound he called "retinene" (now "retinaldehyde") that in turn yielded vitamin A (now called retinol).