Sentences with phrase «sending rods and cones»

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.

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But what it will do is astounding nonetheless: send electric pulses that bypass the retina's damaged rods and cones to jump - start cells that are still viable.

The macula is densely packed with photoreceptor cells called rods and cones that react to light and send electrical nerve impulses to the optic nerve and into the brain.

Replacing rods and cones is challenging, because these cells have to establish connections with nerve fibers that feed signals into the optic nerve, which sends those signals to the brain to interpret.