photoreceptor

Converse of object

• call: Tiny light sensitive patches called photoreceptors cover the back of the eye.
• use: Birds perceive day length using photoreceptors in the brain integrated with their circadian clock.

Noun used with modifier

• cone: These children may mainly have a problem with their cone photoreceptors.
• rod: These children might mainly have a problem mainly with their rod photoreceptors.
• melanopsin: We now know that this synchronization is largely dependent upon these blue light sensitive melanopsin photoreceptors, " he added.
• blue-light: Since Neurospora has a blue-light photoreceptor the clock in Neurospora " sees " white or blue light but does not perceive red light.

Adjective modifier

• retinal: Our perception of color arises from the presence of three types of retinal photoreceptors ( cones ) sensitive to different wavelengths of light.
• blue: We now know that this synchronization is largely dependent upon these blue light sensitive melanopsin photoreceptors, " he added.
• human: The temporal properties of the human short-wave photoreceptors and their associated pathways.
• sensitive: We now know that this synchronization is largely dependent upon these blue light sensitive melanopsin photoreceptors, " he added.
• light: We now know that this synchronization is largely dependent upon these blue light sensitive melanopsin photoreceptors, " he added.
• different: The different plant photoreceptors for red and blue lights.

Modifies a noun

• cell: Where the optic nerve attaches to the retina, no photoreceptor cells ( cones or rods ) are present.
• protein: My postgraduate research in Robert Molday's laboratory was to investigate the function of bovine retinal rod photoreceptor proteins in the phototransduction process.
• system: However, studies over the past decade have provided the substrate for the heretical view that the mammalian eye contains a novel photoreceptor system.
• response: As their main source, the results suggest specific properties of the photoreceptor response and a specialized amacrine cell circuit in the inner retina.
• differentiation: We are interested in identifying cellular pathways that are involved in photoreceptor differentiation, function and degeneration.
• molecule: These disks contain thousands of molecules of rhodopsin, the photoreceptor molecule.

Preposition: in

• retina: Optic Nerve Each photoreceptor in the retina sends its signals down very fine wires to the brain.
• eye: There are about 130 million photoreceptors in each eye.