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Nutrition in Neuroscience Part 3 | Mastering Nutrition #42

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CGMP Is a Second Messenger System

GMP is guanosine monophosphate. GMP can be processed to form into a ring structure called cyclic GMP. It becomes relevant when the CGMP signal is lost. When light comes into the photoreceptor, it strikes a photopigment that contains an opsin protein and retinal, which is a form of vitamin A. Transducin activates a phosphodiesterase that hydrolyzes CGMP, breaks it apart using water.

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