Nonvisual photoreceptor
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cells specialized to detect and transduce light; for photoreceptors involved in vision, see VISUAL PHOTORECEPTOR.
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- The retina of the blind mole rat Spalax ehrenbergi was compared with other vertebrate photosensitive organs in an attempt to correlate its histologic organization with a presumptive nonvisual photoreceptor role.
- To analyze the patterns of expression of the cryptochromes, CRY1 and CRY2, in the human retina and to correlate expression of these putative blue-light receptors with nonvisual photoreceptor localization.
- Recent research has shown that the retina also contains nonvisual photoreceptor cells called intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion (ipRG) cells that function as the eye's "tight meter.
- Nonvisual photoreceptors of the deep brain, pineal organs and retina.
- Why are there nonvisual photoreceptors in the deep brain? They may do more than synchronizing internal clocks with the environment.
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