Sentences with phrase «support photoreceptors»
Microglia support photoreceptors by keeping the connections between them intact.
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Similar patches and treatments have already been tested against the «wet» form — in which blood vessels invade and destroy the retinal pigment epithelial cells that nourish and support the photoreceptor cells that capture light.
The findings from our proposed studies will further define how the RPE supports the photoreceptor functions via metabolic coupling, and hopefully identify novel druggable targets for preventing RPE and retinal degeneration during AMD.
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Without RPEs to support and nourish them, adjacent photoreceptor cells which capture light signals, die too and blindness is the result.
As RPEs help to maintain and support adjacent photoreceptor cells which capture light, their loss leads to blindness.
«This is the first time that such an integral membrane protein has been localized in the photoreceptor cells and shown to have the capacity to support sight,» notes Dr. Bazan, the paper's corresponding author.
These cells are interdependent, as RPE provides nutritional support to allow photoreceptors to respond to light.
The findings support a path to improving clinical applications, specifically for restoring vision in humans by allowing photoreceptors derived from human stem cells to integrate and thrive in the eye.
With age, our eyes accumulate waste in retinal pigment epithelium (RPE), which supports the life and function of photoreceptors (light sensitive cells in the eye); in advanced stages, RPE and photoreceptors die.
Behind the photoreceptors is another layer of cells called retinal pigment epithelium (RPE), which support the rods and cones by delivering nutrients from the bloodstream and removing waste that the rods and cones generate.
The treatment could help people who have a fault in a gene called RPE65, which causes problems in the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE), a thin layer of cells that support and nourish photoreceptors.
It is likely that those cells would then support the function of the very important photoreceptor cells in the retina.
These are the photoreceptor support cells in the retina that are critical for the process of light into sight conversion.