Sentences with phrase «intrinsically photosensitive»

However, the evidence from the past decade or so has revealed a third class of photoreceptor within the eye; intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (ipRGCs), which express their own distinct opsin — melanopsin [6,7].

But about 1 percent of RGCs are intrinsically photosensitive (ipRGCs).

They further demonstrated that the cells — called intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells, or ipRGCs — could detect light.