Sentences with phrase «contains photoreceptors»

The first layer contains the photoreceptors — the rods and cones that detect light.

Their focus is the retina, the thin tissue in the back of the eye containing the photoreceptors and nerve cells.

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It took nearly eight decades for scientists to investigate his claim and prove him right: The eye really does contain a third type of photoreceptor cells that sense light intensity without detecting images.

The retina contains small, specialized neurons called bipolar cells that transmit information from light - sensitive photoreceptor cells to ganglion neurons, which send information to the brain for interpretation as images.

The six previously known fly rhodopsins account for the full function of photoreceptor cells in the fly's eyes, so although the fruit fly genome contained the sequence of a seventh rhodopsin, the role of Rh7 was unclear.

Right now scientists can only speculate what it might be like to wear an artificial retina with millions of photoreceptors in a regular grid, but such a device would not restore the experience of vision — no matter how many electrodes it contains.

When mice ate chow containing tamoxifen (about six to eight times the dose usually given to humans), the microglia didn't overreact and the photoreceptors were spared, the researchers found.

The ragworm's brain photoreceptor contains an opsin pigment that is almost identical to the human version.

A good example of compartmentalization is observed in a specialized type of light - sensing neurons found in the retina, the photoreceptors, which are made up of different compartments containing specific proteins essential for vision.

These wavelength - sensitive photoreceptors were identified soon after and are known as melanopsin - containing ganglion cells.

The compound eyes of most arthropods contain thousands of tiny lenses, each of which resolves light to a point on a photoreceptor behind.

A population of these cells forms a layer deep to the photoreceptors, where they contain intracellular pigment granules and appear superficially like an extra RPE layer, even though they do not express at least two characteristic RPE proteins.

These wavelength - sensitive photoreceptors are known as melanopsin - containing ganglion cells.

The retina contains the cells, photoreceptors, that collect information about light: that is, they are th...

The eyes contain two different types of photoreceptor cells that affect the way everyone sees things, and this is true of both dogs and people.