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B D Gupta, I C Goyal, A K Ghatak

    Biophysics of Structure and Mechanism
    |April 13, 1978
    PubMed

    Keywords:
    retinal pigmentsquantum efficiencymetarhodopsin kineticsvisual physiology

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