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Descriptor English: Light Signal Transduction
Descriptor Spanish: Fototransducción
Descriptor transducción de señales luminosas
Scope note: Conversión de la energía luminosa absorbida en señales moleculares.
Descriptor Portuguese: Transdução de Sinal Luminoso
Descriptor French: Phototransduction
Entry term(s): Phototransduction
Signal Transduction, Light
Transduction, Light Signal
Tree number(s): G02.111.820.480
G04.835.480
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D055537
Scope note: The conversion of absorbed light energy into molecular signals.
Annotation: phototransduction in plants or microorganisms or non-image forming/non-visual phototransduction goes here; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION, VISUAL see VISION, OCULAR is also available
Allowable Qualifiers: DE drug effects
GE genetics
IM immunology
PH physiology
RE radiation effects
Public MeSH Note: 2009
History Note: 2009
Related: Photoreceptors, Microbial MeSH
Photoreceptors, Plant MeSH
DeCS ID: 53302
Unique ID: D055537
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Date Established: 2009/01/01
Date of Entry: 2008/07/08
Revision Date: 2016/06/17
Light Signal Transduction - Preferred
Concept UI M0518336
Scope note The conversion of absorbed light energy into molecular signals.
Preferred term Light Signal Transduction
Entry term(s) Phototransduction
Signal Transduction, Light
Transduction, Light Signal



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