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The early receptor potential (ERP) was first recorded by Brown and Murakami from the monkey fovea in 1964. This fast response, which has almost zero latency, can be detected when the retina is stimulated with brief, intense flashes that bleach a considerable amount of visual pigment. The discovery of the ERP gave rise to a great deal of experiments, in the hope that the ERP might be a “missing link” between the photolysis of rhodopsin and photoreceptor excitation. It was suggested that the ERP could be converted by some kind of potential-sensitive membrane system into the late receptor potential which, as we now know, does transmit excitation along the cell (Brown & Murakami, 1964; Cone, 1965; Pak & Ebrey, 1965, and many others).
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Govardovskii, V.I. (1984). The Early Receptor Potential: Its Mode of Generation, Application to Study of Photoreceptors, and Functional Significance. In: Borsellino, A., Cervetto, L. (eds) Photoreceptors. NATO Asi Series, vol 75. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9382-9_9
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