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Hubbard has found that the photoisomerization of retinene was important for the regeneration of rhodopsin in vitro, and the object of the present investigation was to find whether this was also true for regeneration in the living human eye.
In the Appendix is described a device which permits the rhodopsin density to be measured by analysing the light reflected from the fundus oculi in an ophthalmoscopic arrangement, the measurement taking about 5 seconds. Now if a blue and a yellow light viewed scotopically are adjusted in intensity so as to appear identical, they must bleach rhodopsin equally, but the blue will be more than 10 times as effective in isomerizing retinene. Therefore if retinene isomerization is important for rhodopsin regeneration, blue light should cause a more rapid regeneration after bleaching, and during bleaching the equilibrium level attained should be less profound. But, as the figures show, the course of bleaching and regeneration is identical for the matched yellow or blue bleaching lights, therefore isomerization of retinene is not important for rhodopsin regeneration in the living human eye.
Submitted on April 8, 1957
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