Sentences with phrase «photoreceptor cells need»
These findings have suggested the development stages at which to transplant cells — for instance, photoreceptor cells need to be relatively more mature than stem cells, according to Thomas Reh, who studies retinal development at the University of Washington.
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PRA is caused by the degeneration of the photoreceptor cells, rods and cones, which are needed for dark and day light vision, respectively.
Still, Scholl adds, transplantation of RPE cells «can't be it» for such patients, because ultimately they need new photoreceptors to restore vision.
«These approaches,» said Sudharsan, «may help sustain photoreceptor cells for the time period needed to develop a specific gene therapy.»
The pigment is needed by photoreceptor cells — the retina's light - sending rods and cones — and when RPE65 is mutated, the photoreceptor cells gradually die.
«When horizontal cells are blocked from being formed — the immediate consequence of knocking out Onecut1 — the photoreceptors don't get what they need to survive, so they degenerate and die later on.»