Sentences with phrase «cause rod cell»

After using the enzyme to cause rod cell death in the fish, the researchers added the anti-inflammatory drug to the water to reduce microglia reactivity.

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This approach could soon be taken with rods and cones, the light - sensitive cells in eyes that can wither as we age, causing blindness.

PRA is caused by the degeneration of the photoreceptor cells, rods and cones, which are needed for dark and day light vision, respectively.

In people with sickle cell anemia, molecules of sickle hemoglobin clump together and form long rods that cause red blood cells to become rigid and take on a sickle shape.

Mutations in at least 60 genes are known to cause the disease, and many people are not diagnosed until after a a substantial proportion of photoreceptor cells, the eye's rods and cones, have already degenerated and died.

One of these two photons is detected by a photodiode and used to trigger an acousto - optical modulator, causing it to divert the second photon to a tapered optical fiber directed at a pipette containing a rod cell from a frog's eye (see image).

Retinitis pigmentosa is an inherited retinal degenerative disease that causes slow but progressive vision loss due to a gradual loss of the light - sensitive retinal cells called rods and cones.

This is different from typical progressive retinal degeneration (PRA), which involves both the rod and cone cells of the retina causing night blindness and worsening day vision.

Rocky Mountain spotted fever, also spread by contact with ticks, is caused by a different kind of bacteria called a rickettsia, which is rod - shaped and multiplies only within the cells of its host.

This genetic disorder causes rod and cone cells in the retina at the back of the eye to degenerate and die, even though the cells seem to develop normally early in life.

However unlike other forms of Day Blindness observed in other breeds, the DB / RD mutation causes a more complete retinal degeneration in the Standard Poodle and affected dogs eventually lose both cone and rod cell function resulting in vision loss under all lighting conditions.

PRA is an eye disorder that causes the rod and cone cells to deteriorate over time, eventually leading to complete blindness.