UV radiation blocking compounds in the eye of the cuttlefish Sepia officinalis

Biol Bull. 1998 Oct;195(2):187-8. doi: 10.2307/1542830.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Amino Acids / isolation & purification
  • Amino Acids / physiology*
  • Animals
  • Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid
  • Cornea / physiology
  • Cornea / radiation effects
  • Kynurenine / analogs & derivatives
  • Kynurenine / physiology
  • Light
  • Mollusca / physiology
  • Mollusca / radiation effects*
  • Ocular Physiological Phenomena / radiation effects*
  • Photoreceptor Cells, Invertebrate / physiology
  • Photoreceptor Cells, Invertebrate / radiation effects*
  • Seawater
  • Spectrophotometry
  • Ultraviolet Rays

Substances

  • Amino Acids
  • 3-hydroxykynurenine
  • Kynurenine