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A Rhodopsin Transport Assay by High-Content Imaging Analysis
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The directional absorption properties of rhodopsin and its photoproducts

B D Gupta, A Sharma, I C Goyal

    Biophysics of Structure and Mechanism
    |August 1, 1979
    PubMed

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