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Kyoto University

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These two mice are seemingly the same, but under blue light, one mouse glows green. This green mouse is a transgenic PKAchu mouse that changes color when the protein PKA is activated. Taking a sheet of retinal cells from PKAchu, you can see that PKA is activated by darkness only in the stimulated area

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