photoreceptor
Key Facts
Abbreviation
PR
Pronunciation
/ˌfoʊtoʊrɪˈseptər/
Category
Medical
Related Field
British Medicine
Examples in Context
- They consist of no more than two cells : a photoreceptor(PR) cell and a pigment cell.
- Objective : To study the characteristics of neonatal calf retinal cell communications and cell junctions of photoreceptor(PR) cells.
- Extracellular CA-1 mediates the hydration of CO2 released from the photoreceptor(PR) cells to bicarbonate within the vitreous.
- Retinal light injury can cause photoreceptor(PR) apoptosis and retinal degeneration, and may even lead to irreversible blindness.
- Vitamins function as photoreceptor(PR) mechanism of retina, maintenance of integrity of epithelia, lysosome stability, glycoprotein synthesis.
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