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rod | American Dictionary

rod
noun[ C ]
us/rɑd/
a long, thin pole made of wood, metal, or other material:
a fishing/curtain rod

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For nocturnal or deep-sea animals, the sensitivity afforded by achromatic rod vision may outweigh the benefits of cone-based color constancy.
Thus, we can conclude with confidence that rod cells do not contain a circadian oscillator.
Synaptic transmission mediated by internal calcium stores in rod photoreceptors.
The regulatory elements are able to direct expression to a subpopulation of cones while excluding expression in rods and non-photoreceptor retinal cells.
Increase in retinal area, density of rod nuclei, and densities of rod inner and outer segments were also studied in these and additional species.
Furthermore, two different patterns of distribution of rod precursors were distinguished.
Topography of cones and rods in the tree shrew retina.
The high density of rods (104,100 cells/mm2) with elongated outer segments (up to 30.5 6 2.9 m in length) indicates a light-sensitive retina.
It may arise from melanopsin-generated input and 0or melanopsin-derived signals modified by rods and 0or cones.
Characterization of the rod photoresponse isolated from the dark-adapted primate retina.
This feedback has been shown to occur primarily at the axon terminals of rat rod bipolar cells.
The rate of increase of ellipsoid volume, and therefore mitochondrial volume, with increased eccentricity, was much more dramatic in cones than in rods.
In summary, we have quantified the difference between rods and cones in their mitochondrial content.
There is similar agreement for comparisons of spectra based on rod signals for dog and ferret.
A visual pigment expressed in both rod and cone photoreceptors.
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