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Rushton's paradox: rod dark adaptation after flash photolysis.

Rushton's paradox: rod dark adaptation after flash photolysis. 1. Rod dark adaptations after a photoregenerating flash and quantum‐equivalent 30 sec bleach are found to be in exact agreement, while the measured rhodopsin regenerations are grossly different. This finding confirms and clarifies ‘Rushton's paradox’, the failure of the Dowling‐Rushton equation (linking log sensitivity linearly with unregenerated rhodopsin) to account for human rod dark adaptation after flash photolysis. 2. The hypothesis that the agreement between rod dark adaptation curves after a photoregenerating flash and after a quantum‐equivalent 30 sec bleach is coincidental is rejected on the basic of two classes of experiments. 3. Rod ‘bleaching’ adaptation is demonstrated to be entirely determined by the number of rhodopsin molecules which absorb at least one quantum in a temporal period T, whose range includes the time interval 600 musec less than or equal T less than or equal 30 sec. This generalization obtains over the entire scotopic energy range (congruent to 3 log units) where rod dark adaptations has been studied. 4. Thus, the state of ‘bleaching’ adaptation is determined by some by‐product of the normal chain of events in scotopic excitation. About this by‐product three important deductions are made: (i) its production is a monotonic function of the initial effective quantum absorptions; (ii) its production occurs before the metarhodopsin I leads to to metarhodopsin II dark reaction; (iii) it cannot be any photoproduct of the rhodopsin cycle. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Journal of Physiology Wiley

Rushton's paradox: rod dark adaptation after flash photolysis.

Pugh, E N
The Journal of Physiology , Volume 248 (2) – Jun 1, 1975
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Wiley
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© 2014 The Physiological Society
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0022-3751
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10.1113/jphysiol.1975.sp010982
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Abstract

1. Rod dark adaptations after a photoregenerating flash and quantum‐equivalent 30 sec bleach are found to be in exact agreement, while the measured rhodopsin regenerations are grossly different. This finding confirms and clarifies ‘Rushton's paradox’, the failure of the Dowling‐Rushton equation (linking log sensitivity linearly with unregenerated rhodopsin) to account for human rod dark adaptation after flash photolysis. 2. The hypothesis that the agreement between rod dark adaptation curves after a photoregenerating flash and after a quantum‐equivalent 30 sec bleach is coincidental is rejected on the basic of two classes of experiments. 3. Rod ‘bleaching’ adaptation is demonstrated to be entirely determined by the number of rhodopsin molecules which absorb at least one quantum in a temporal period T, whose range includes the time interval 600 musec less than or equal T less than or equal 30 sec. This generalization obtains over the entire scotopic energy range (congruent to 3 log units) where rod dark adaptations has been studied. 4. Thus, the state of ‘bleaching’ adaptation is determined by some by‐product of the normal chain of events in scotopic excitation. About this by‐product three important deductions are made: (i) its production is a monotonic function of the initial effective quantum absorptions; (ii) its production occurs before the metarhodopsin I leads to to metarhodopsin II dark reaction; (iii) it cannot be any photoproduct of the rhodopsin cycle.

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Published: Jun 1, 1975

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