Multifunctional glial support by Semper cells in the Drosophila retina. [PDF]
PLoS Genetics, 2017 Glial cells play structural and functional roles central to the formation, activity and integrity of neurons throughout the nervous system. In the retina of vertebrates, the high energetic demand of photoreceptors is sustained in part by Müller glia, an ...
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Adult limbal neurosphere cells: a potential autologous cell resource for retinal cell generation [PDF]
, 2014 The Corneal limbus is a readily accessible region at the front of the eye, separating the cornea and sclera. Neural colonies (neurospheres) can be generated from adult corneal limbus in vitro.
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Exposure to the complement C5b-9 complex sensitizes 661W photoreceptor cells to both apoptosis and necroptosis. [PDF]
, 2015 The loss of photoreceptors is the defining characteristic of many retinal degenerative diseases, but the mechanisms that regulate photoreceptor cell death are not fully understood.
Dimitrios Stampoulis +11 more
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Photoreceptor spectral sensitivity in the bumblebee, Bombus impatiens (Hymenoptera: Apidae). [PDF]
, 2010 The bumblebee Bombus impatiens is increasingly used as a model in comparative studies of colour vision, or in behavioural studies relying on perceptual discrimination of colour.
Skorupski Peter +5 more
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Metabolism in the Zebrafish Retina
Journal of Developmental Biology, 2021 Retinal photoreceptors are amongst the most metabolically active cells in the body, consuming more glucose as a metabolic substrate than even the brain. This ensures that there is sufficient energy to establish and maintain photoreceptor functions during
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Photoreceptor processing speed and input resistance changes during light adaptation correlate with spectral class in the bumblebee, Bombus impatiens. [PDF]
, 2011 Colour vision depends on comparison of signals from photoreceptors with different spectral sensitivities. However, response properties of photoreceptor cells may differ in ways other than spectral tuning. In insects, for example, broadband photoreceptors,
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Targeting of Drosophila rhodopsin requires helix 8 but not the distal C-terminus. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2009 BACKGROUND:The fundamental role of the light receptor rhodopsin in visual function and photoreceptor cell development has been widely studied. Proper trafficking of rhodopsin to the photoreceptor membrane is of great importance.
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Folia Morphologica, 2023 BACKGROUND: The retinae of treeshrew have never been evaluated by scanning electron microscopic studies. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This work described the visual cells in the photoreceptor layer of the retinae of treeshrew (Tupaia belangeri chinensis ...
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A monoclonal antibody which recognizes the inner and outer segments of the photoreceptor cells in the vertebrate retina. [PDF]
, 1991 A monoclonal antibody (MAb-1E7), generated against bovine retinal homogenate, labeled the outer and inner segment layers of the vertebrate retina. Immuno-electron microscopic observation clearly demonstrated that antigen(s) bound by MAb-1E7 was localized
Ono, Katsuhiko +4 more
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Co-expression of xenopsin and rhabdomeric opsin in photoreceptors bearing microvilli and cilia
eLife, 2017 Ciliary and rhabdomeric opsins are employed by different kinds of photoreceptor cells, such as ciliary vertebrate rods and cones or protostome microvillar eye photoreceptors, that have specialized structures and molecular physiologies.
Oliver Vöcking +3 more
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