Sentences with phrase «photoreceptor cells lost»

This implant makes use of bipolar cells, as these form the second layer downstream of photoreceptor cells lost to the progress of disease.

Not exact matches

The downside is that people with these eye diseases are losing sight in large part because they're losing a different type of eye cell: the photoreceptors that sense light in the retina.

In people with RP and AMD, the photoreceptors have been damaged and lost, so the ganglion cells do not receive signals and the brain can not produce an image.

There are even efforts underway to transplant cultured photoreceptor cells into the retina to replace those lost from advanced disease.

If the layer is not sustained, which the implant intends to replace, then the photoreceptor cells also die off, and people lose their sight slowly as a result.

In the past, neural stem and progenitor cells from various sources were introduced into eyes with the thought that they might differentiate and replace photoreceptors lost in retinal disease [13]--[19].

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].