The retina recieves the image seen through your eye, only in reverse up to down. It transmits this image through the optical nerve and your brain returns the inverted image to its correct right side up.
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The retina is a multi-layered sensory tissue that lines the back of the eye. ... There are approximately 125 million rods. They are spread throughout the peripheral retina and function best in dim lighting. The rods are responsible for peripheral and night vision.
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www.stlukeseye.com/anatomy/Retina.asp
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Retina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The vertebrate retina is a light sensitive tissue lining the inner surface of the eye. The optics of the eye create an image of the visual world on the retina, which serves much the same function as...
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The retina contains a range of ganglion cell types that differ in morphology and in their response to visual stimuli. They extract different image parameters and transmit them to the brain in independent parallel channels.
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www.medscape.com/medline/abstract/2722100
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Retinal circadian oscillators regulate many aspects of retinal function. ... Retinal circadian oscillators regulate many aspects of retinal function. Investigations of these oscillators and the biochemical cascades that entrain them would be greatly facilitated if experimental paradigms could be identified that permit long...
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www.medscape.com/medline/abstract/12782388
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Light-sensing cells in retina develop before vision ... And he says because retinas tend to be very similar in most mammals, human ganglion cells also may develop and begin to function earlier than rods and cones. Although ipRGCs sense light in mice and humans, they don't connect to the brain's visual cortex.
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Some interesting points about the retina. ... The anatomy of the retina ... Anatomy & Function of the Retina...
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To evaluate the function of the neural retina, electroretinographic (ERG) responses to full-field stimuli were recorded from dark-adapted rats at ages 18 and 31 days. Sensitivity and saturated amplitude of photoreceptor and postreceptor activity were derived from ERG a- and b- waves.
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A. An overview of the function of the eye: ... At the back of the eye lies the retina, seven layers of alternating cells and processes which convert a light signal into a neural signal ("signal transduction"). The actual photoreceptors are the rods and cones, but the cells that transmit to the brain are the ganglion cells.
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