Sentence examples for lack of rod from inspiring English sources

As the mutant rhodopsin protein kills light-sensitive rod cells in the retina, the sufferer first loses night vision, then peripheral vision, and finally central vision when the lack of rod cells causes the color-sensitive cone cells to degenerate.

However, the TKO response reveals that, in this context, loss of high sensitivity vision is not synonymous with a lack of rod photoreception.

His results were consistent with lack of rod- and cone-based vision over the full 8 log unit dynamic range tested.

It is interesting to note that the blue light did not cause a suppression of delta and theta activity in the waking EEG, as we have previously observed in sighted subjects [18], and it is tempting to suggest that the lack of rod-cone photoreception in this subject may account for the altered EEG response at those particular frequencies, as we recently speculated [22].

The above mentioned entity is characterized by the well-known clinical disease manifestation: presence of <5%% of myeloblasts in bone marrow and lack of Auer rods [ 1, 2].

This lack of mixing of rod- and cone-mediated signals both constrains potential sites of interaction and provides ample opportunities for selective processing, for example to shape the kinetics of rod-mediated signals distinctly from cone-mediated signals.

The lack of transfer from rod to cone pathways, together with the requirement that the gain control mechanism have access to signals from hundreds of rods, makes the AII amacrine cell and/or its gap junction with On cone bipolar cells likely sites.

In particular, we found that INM protein LEMD2 is concomitantly expressed with A-type lamins in various cell types but is lacking in inverted nuclei of rod cells.

The omission of one of the five rod opsin gene exons by alternative splicing could account for the lack of immunoreactivity with both rod opsin antibodies.

Structural engineers and earthquake experts outside China who have examined photos of collapsed schools point to two critical flaws: a lack of adequate iron reinforcing rods, and poorly built, hollow concrete slab floors.

The Gnat1−/− mouse is a widely used model of rod-inactivation, partly because, unlike other lesions of rod phototransduction, it lacks significant secondary retinal degeneration.