Sensory Cells (IMAGE)

University of Maryland School of Medicine

Sensory Cells

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In healthy light-detecting cells (top), the photoreceptor rhodopsin (green) and inversin (red) proteins are contained in separate portions of the cell's antenna-like structures. However, in the light-detecting mouse cells missing complement factor H (bottom left) or with human cells with a high-risk age-related macular degeneration mutation (bottom right), the rhodopsin and inversin proteins overlap (yellow).

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