Longitudinal Diffusion in Retinal Rod and Cone Outer Segment Cytoplasm The Consequence of Cell Structure.PDFVIP

2566 Biophysical Journal Volume 86 April 2004 2566–2582 Longitudinal Diffusion in Retinal Rod and Cone Outer Segment Cytoplasm: The Consequence of Cell Structure David Holcman and Juan I. Korenbrot Keck Center for Theoretical Neurobiology and Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California ABSTRACT Excitation signals spread along photoreceptor outer segments away from the site of photon capture because of longitudinal