Sentence examples for rod cells from inspiring English sources

The animals that performed best had the most newly connected rod cells.

The active centre of rhodopsin is found in rod cells of the retina.

Another type of photoreceptor cells, called rod cells, which chiefly register brightness, are most sensitive to blue-green light, so these wavelengths have an advantage at night.

Robin Ali at University College London's Institute of Ophthalmology and Moorfields Eye Hospital has previously shown that transplanting immature rod cells from the retinas of very young mice can restore vision in blind adult mice.

Rod cells are the most sensitive to light, but all absorb at the same wavelength, which does not allow colours to be distinguished.

Dim-light vision is mediated by retinal rod cells.

Control, metal unchallenged samples exhibited elongated rod cells with smooth surfaces (Fig. 5a).

The researchers measured gene activity in four different strains of mice with defective rod cells.

Rod cells in our eyes help us see in dim light.

Photoreceptor rod cells contain a unique tetraspanin fusion protein known as peripherin/rds.

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.