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Multiphoton Response Of Retinal Rod Photoreceptors, Vasilios Alexiades, Harihar Khanal
Multiphoton Response Of Retinal Rod Photoreceptors, Vasilios Alexiades, Harihar Khanal
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Phototransduction is the process by which light is converted into an electrical response in retinal photoreceptors. Rod photoreceptors contain a stack of (about 1000) disc membranes packed with photopigment rhodopsin molecules, which absorb the photons. We present computational experiments which show the profound effect on the response of the distances (how many discs apart) photons happen to be absorbed at. This photon-distribution effect alone can account for much of the observed variability in response.