Opsins
"Opsins" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Photosensitive proteins in the membranes of PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS such as the rods and the cones. Opsins have varied light absorption properties and are members of the G-PROTEIN-COUPLED RECEPTORS family. Their ligands are VITAMIN A-based chromophores.
| Descriptor ID |
D055355
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D12.776.306.466 D23.767.930.750
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2010 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Opsins" by people in Profiles.
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Chakraborty D, Conley SM, Stuck MW, Naash MI. Differences in RDS trafficking, assembly and function in cones versus rods: insights from studies of C150S-RDS. Hum Mol Genet. 2010 Dec 15; 19(24):4799-812.
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Chakraborty D, Conley SM, Fliesler SJ, Naash MI. The function of oligomerization-incompetent RDS in rods. Adv Exp Med Biol. 2010; 664:39-46.
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Kanan Y, Centola M, Bart F, Al-Ubaidi MR. Analysis of genes differentially expressed during retinal degeneration in three mouse models. Adv Exp Med Biol. 2010; 664:3-13.
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Cai X, Conley SM, Nash Z, Fliesler SJ, Cooper MJ, Naash MI. Gene delivery to mitotic and postmitotic photoreceptors via compacted DNA nanoparticles results in improved phenotype in a mouse model of retinitis pigmentosa. FASEB J. 2010 Apr; 24(4):1178-91.