"Cause of death of photoreceptor cells in retinitis pigmentosa elucidated." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 20 August 2012. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2012 / 08 / 120820152202.htm>.

During brief (30-min) incubations, isolated rat retinas accumulated [3 H]cytidine, converted it to cytidine triphosphate (CTP), and incorporated it into RNA and cytidine diphosphate-diacylglyceride ...

Many cases of inherited blindness result from defects in protein trafficking to the light-sensitive ciliary compartment of photoreceptor cells called the outer segment. Like in other cilia, this ...

Retinitis pigmentosa is an inherited condition that causes irreversible vision loss due to the degeneration of photoreceptor cells in the eye called "rods" and "cones." Rods are responsible for ...

The cells transplanted in this study were rod-photoreceptor cells. Rod cells are especially important for seeing in the dark as they are extremely sensitive to low levels of light.

"Photoreceptor cell death leads to blindness in CLN5 form of Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 16 May 2017. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2017 / 05 / 170516121632.htm>.

A preclinical study using stem cells to produce progenitor photoreceptor cells—light-detecting cells found in the eye—and then transplanting these into experimental models of damaged retinas has ...

As PEDF is secreted by the RPE cells, it binds to a receptor called PEDF-R and helps to break down lipid molecules that enclose outer segments of the photoreceptor cells.

Degeneration of photoreceptors, the major light-sensing cells in the eye, is a primary cause of vision loss worldwide. Identifying the underlying causes surrounding photoreceptor cell death is ...