Heat Generated by the Dark-Adapted Squid Retina in Response to Light Pulses
- 8 February 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 227 (4687), 654-655
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.3969556
Abstract
A rapid increase in the temperature of the dark-adapted squid retina evoked by a brief light pulse was detected with a pyroelectric detector. The amount of heat generated by the retina in response to a pulse of blue light of moderate intensity was far greater than that produced by direct conversion of the stimulating light by the retinal pigments into thermal energy. D-Glucose in the medium was required to maintain the ability of the retina to produce light-evoked thermal responses.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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