We propose a 'transcriptional dominance' model of photoreceptor fate determination that includes three fundamental attributes: that all photoreceptor types originate from a common postmitotic ...

The breakdown of glutamine is an important metabolic pathway for the health and survival of rod photoreceptors within the retina.

在国家自然科学基金项目（批准号：32330006、32150007、31825004）等资助下，深圳大学刘宏涛教授团队在植物光信号转导研究方面取得新进展，相关成果以“拟南芥蓝光受体CRY2在黑暗中抑制根伸长（The Arabidopsis blue-light photoreceptor CRY2 is active in darkness to inhibit root growth ...

Researchers reveal that mitochondria in photoreceptor cells align side-by-side via specialized tethers, enabling ...

Oral 8-aminoguanine (8-AG) treatment preserved retinal structure and rod function in aged Fischer 344 rats, significantly ...

Inherited retinal degenerations (IRDs) are a group of genetic disorders that lead to progressive vision loss as the ...

Photoreceptors. Photoreceptor cells are the specific cells within the retina that convert light into signals for the brain to interpret. You have two types of photoreceptor cells: rods and cones.

Blinding diseases lead to permanent vision loss by damaging photoreceptor cells, which humans cannot naturally regenerate. While researchers are working on new methods to replace or regenerate ...

Their results, published in the journal Developmental Cell, offer promising insights for the future of photoreceptor replacement therapies. Vision is a complex sense that depends on the retina.

How they do so is now being elucidated. We see color because photoreceptor cones in our eyes detect light waves corresponding to red, green, and blue, while dimness or brightness is detected by ...

Each photoreceptor contains light-absorbing molecules, called photopigments, that undergo a chemical change when struck by light. This triggers a chain of events in the photoreceptor, prompting it ...