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Meanings of retinal rod photoreceptor cells in English

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bastonete
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Photoreceptor cells in the retina of the eye that can function in lower light.

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        Examples for "rod"
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        The smile will succeed the frown; the balm will follow the rod.
        The Christian Home / As it is in the Sphere of Nature and the Ch...
        2
        And for a great street rod, you'll need thousands of those hours.
        BBC
        3
        Hubbard picked the rod up tenderly and put it in the canoe.
        The Lure of the Labrador Wild
        4
        Fit the collars tightly on the rod to hold them in place.
        The Boy Mechanic, Volume 1: 700 Things for Boys to Do
        5
        My staff and rod, needless to say, had been taken as well.
        Summer knight
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        In darkness, transducin is sequestered within the membrane-enriched outer segments of the rod cell.
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        2
        Photoreceptor rod cells and blood platelets are remarkably different, yet both illustrate a similar phenomenon.
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        3
        In rod cells, cholesterol strongly inhibits rhodopsin activity.
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        4
        Some deep-sea fish only have rod cells in the retinas of their eyes, unlike humans who have both rods and cones.
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        Bright light also causes relocalization of transducin from the OS (outer segments) of the rod cells to the inner compartments.
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        When cone and rod photoreceptor dysfunction was present, it was approximately equal.
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        A single photon can be detected by a rod photoreceptor cell.
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        Our studies also implicate MEF2C as a transcriptional regulator of homeostasis in rod photoreceptor cells.
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        A new high-resolution structure is reported for bovine rhodopsin, the visual pigment in rod photoreceptor cells.
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        PCR-analysis on laser capture microdissection samples was used to verify the expression of these genes in the rod photoreceptor layer.
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        We found that IRBP removes all-trans-retinol from individual rod photoreceptors in a concentration-dependent manner.
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        Activation of rod photoreceptors by light induces a massive redistribution of the heterotrimeric G-protein transducin.
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        Unique to fish, rod photoreceptors are added in situ from stem cells within the mature retina.
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        Cone photoreceptors of the vertebrate retina terminate their response to light much faster than rod photoreceptors.
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        We have used the fluorescence of all-trans retinol to study this reduction in living rod photoreceptors.
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        Translations for retinal rod photoreceptor cells
        Portuguese
        bastonete