How to Use photoreceptor in a Sentence

photoreceptor

noun

• Might have something to do with the way the photoreceptors in the eye work.
  — Adam Rogers, WIRED, 16 May 2018
• These photoreceptors are located in the retina, a thin layer in the back of the eye.
  — Caren Chesler, Popular Mechanics, 6 Mar. 2019
• When light enters the eye, it is captured by photoreceptor cells.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 24 May 2021
• Due to a lack of nutrients, the photoreceptor cells die, leading to blindness.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
• The tiny chip sits behind the retina, the part of the eye that contains the photoreceptor cells that respond to the light of the world by triggering electric pulses in other cells.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 28 Apr. 2015
• Vision starts with photoreceptors, cells in the eye that take in light and convert it to electrical signals.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 1 May 2023
• The nanoparticles bound to the photoreceptors of the mice's eyes and provided night vision for up to 10 weeks without any ill effects.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 23 Sep. 2019
• There are two main types of photoreceptor cells—rods and cones—which convert light into stimuli the body can respond to and understand.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 27 Aug. 2019
• The high number of photoreceptors means the lenses require less power and less light to transmit images.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 17 Jan. 2020
• That makes sense, because the photoreceptors in our eyes, which are called cones and rods, only detect light between these frequencies.
  — Kevin Cortez, Popular Mechanics, 17 Feb. 2023
• The lack of nutrients in the eye ultimately causes light-sensing photoreceptor cells in the eye to die, leading to blindness.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
• This feature is what allows nutrients from the bloodstream to access the retinal membrane and the eye’s photoreceptor cells.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
• The researchers found that the resulting device mimicked the characteristics of the rod-cell photoreceptors found in the retina.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 8 Mar. 2023
• Studies have shown that light-sensing photoreceptors in the eye help to set the body’s circadian clocks, which play a role in regulating sleep, appetite, and much else.
  — Time, 26 Aug. 2019
• The patient in the study was diagnosed at age 18 with an eye disease called retinitis pigmentosa, which causes the photoreceptor cells to die.
  — Caroline Seydel, Forbes, 14 June 2021
• Oakley and his colleagues found that in all nine of those cases, many of the molecular components of the photoreceptor cells, pigment cells and lens cells had previous roles in the stress response to light.
  — Quanta Magazine, 16 Aug. 2021
• Vertebrae animals, like humans, require two types of photoreceptor cells to see, known as rods and cones.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 10 May 2019
• Dr. Levy was fascinated by a class of photoreceptors known as cryptochromes.
  — William J. Broad, New York Times, 20 June 2016
• Combining the top two lenses gives us an extra photoreceptor cone.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 23 Mar. 2017
• Doctors from the Retina Foundation of the Southwest will perform the procedure, and attempt to transfer the job duties of photoreceptor cells to different cells in the eye to restore sight.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 19 Feb. 2016
• That’s likely because these creatures lack several key photoreceptor genes, the study found.
  — Douglas Main, National Geographic, 15 Apr. 2019
• In contrast, the photoreceptors in the retina are passive devices that convert incoming light into electrical signals that are then sent to the brain.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 8 Mar. 2023
• When the blue light hits the molecule retinal, the retinal in turn generates poisonous molecules that kill the very important photoreceptor cells.
  — Emma Sarran Webster, Teen Vogue, 13 Aug. 2018
• Deficits usually occur in the two photoreceptors involved in sight: rods, which handle dim light and night vision and seeing in black and white, and cones, which handle daylight and bright vision and seeing in color.
  — Caren Chesler, Popular Mechanics, 6 Mar. 2019
• Light reflecting off the objects in our field of view enters the eye and comes to a focus on the retina, which is lined with photoreceptor cells that convert that light into electrochemical signals.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Quanta Magazine, 30 July 2018
• Several common disorders steal vision by destroying photoreceptors, the first cells in a relay of information from the eye to the brain.
  — Kelly Servick, Science | AAAS, 31 Oct. 2019
• The photoreceptors appear to be responsive to light in preliminary tests.
  — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 9 Nov. 2023
• When a photon of light is absorbed by a photopigment molecule in a photoreceptor, the energy in the photon is used to break a specific chemical bond in the photopigment.
  — Gabriel A. Silva, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2021
• The mutation prevents the photoreceptors from sensing light, which contributes to low vision or blindness.
  — Time, 6 Aug. 2019
• The information contained in the visual message is the result of a photoreceptor population phenomenon across both space and time (where photons hit the retina and when).
  — Gabriel A. Silva, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2021

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024