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