Sentences with phrase «rods and cones while»
He essentially re-created Keeler's blind mice by shutting down genes essential for the development of rods and cones while still exposing his subjects to cycles of light and dark.
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If the rods and cones acted as the reset button, then the circadian rhythms of the sighted mice should hold to the classic pattern while circadian rhythms of the blind mice drift away.
Cones are specialized in bright environment and detect colors while rods are used in dim light but are monochrome, which is why we see in black and white at night.
Cone cells are specialized for certain wavelengths of light to help animals detect color, while rods can detect even a single photon and are specialized for low - light vision.
In the scotopic - adapted RCS rat, the ERG a-wave (indicative mainly of rod activity) disappears by P60, while the composite b - wave (comprising rod and cone activity) is largely lost around P100 [39].
Cones work in bright light and are more sensitive to colours, while rods are what enable us to see in dim light.