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Abstract
Photosensitive afferent neurons located in the peripheral retina, with their density increases radially away from the FOVEA CENTRALIS. Being much more sensitive to light than the RETINAL CONE CELLS, the rod cells are responsible for twilight vision (at scotopic intensities) as well as peripheral vision, but provide no color discrimination.
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- Photoreceptors, Rod
- Retinal Rod
- Retinal Rod Cells
- Retinal Rod Photoreceptor
- Retinal Rod Photoreceptors
- Rod Photoreceptor Cells
- Rod Photoreceptors
- Rods (Retina)
- Cell, Retinal Rod
- Cell, Rod Photoreceptor
- Cells, Retinal Rod
- Cells, Rod Photoreceptor
- Photoreceptor Cell, Rod
- Photoreceptor Cells, Rod
- Photoreceptor, Retinal Rod
- Photoreceptor, Rod
- Photoreceptors, Retinal Rod
- Retinal Rods
- Rod (Retina)
- Rod Cell, Retinal
- Rod Cells, Retinal
- Rod Photoreceptor
- Rod Photoreceptor Cell
- Rod Photoreceptor, Retinal
- Rod Photoreceptors, Retinal
- Rod, Retinal
- Rods, Retinal
- Retinal Rod Cell
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Indexed with the subheadings chemistry, classification, cytology, drug effects, enzymology, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, parasitology, pathology, physiology, radiation effects, transplantation, ultrastructure, virology.
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2009 (1994)
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- Photoreceptors (1971-1993)
- Rods and Cones (1966-1993)
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- National Library of Medicine. Retinal Rod Photoreceptor Cells. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D017948. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D017948
- Retinal Rod Photoreceptor Cells. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_cell
- Retinal Rod Photoreceptor Cells. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q505544