Photoreceptor cells in the retina of the eye that can function in lower light.
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Examples for "rod"
Examples for "rod"
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The smile will succeed the frown; the balm will follow the rod.
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And for a great street rod, you'll need thousands of those hours.
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Hubbard picked the rod up tenderly and put it in the canoe.
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Fit the collars tightly on the rod to hold them in place.
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My staff and rod, needless to say, had been taken as well.
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In darkness, transducin is sequestered within the membrane-enriched outer segments of the rod cell.
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Photoreceptor rod cells and blood platelets are remarkably different, yet both illustrate a similar phenomenon.
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In rod cells, cholesterol strongly inhibits rhodopsin activity.
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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.