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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Prog Retin Eye Res. 2020 Apr 25;80:100864. doi: 10.1016/j.preteyeres.2020.100864

Figure 14. The vertebrate visual cycle.

Figure 14.

(central) Simplified schematic overview of the arrangement of retinal pigment epithelium cells, rod and cone photoreceptor cells, and Müller glial cells. (right) Biochemical key steps of the classical visual cycle. (left) Photic RGR-dependent visual cycle. N-ret-PE, N-retinylidene-phoshatidyl-ethanolamine, RAL, retinal, RE, retinyl ester, Rho, rhodopsin, ROL, retinol.