Sentences with phrase «adjacent photoreceptor cells»

As RPEs help to maintain and support adjacent photoreceptor cells which capture light, their loss leads to blindness.

Without RPEs to support and nourish them, adjacent photoreceptor cells which capture light signals, die too and blindness is the result.

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Surgeons will inject the cells into the retina in the space usually occupied by RPEs, directly adjacent to the photoreceptor cells.

Fresh porcine retinal tissue was dissected, orientated on a 0.45 mm filter with the photoreceptor cell surface uppermost and placed on top of the iPS - RPE monolayer so that outer segments were adjacent to the RPE.

(B - i) Electron microscopy image of a porcine photoreceptor outer segment (POS) adjacent to an iPS - RPE cell following 3 hours co-culture with a porcine retina explant.