Sentences with phrase «developing rod cells»

The researchers saw that in early stages, two days after the mice were born, developing rod cells expressed genes normally seen in mature short - wavelength cones (which are used in other animals to detect ultraviolet light).

Not exact matches

To ensure this, Wandt developed a rod - shaped cell while he was a doctoral candidate in the group of Prof. Hubert A. Gasteiger, Chair of Technical Electrochemistry at TUM, that allows the formation of metallic lithium to be detected directly and with quantitative precision.

Using a specially developed light source that generates single photons, a new A * STAR study finds that a rod cell has an almost one - in - three chance of detecting an incoming photon.

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.

In RCD3 affected dogs normal rod - mediated ERG responses fail to develop, photoreceptor outer segments do not reach maturity and rod cells are lost by apoptosis [5].

In this type of PRA the rod and cone cells of the retina develop normally but gradually degenerate.