Cones in ageing and harsh environments: the neural economy hypothesis

Cones are at great risk in a wide variety of retinal diseases, especially when there is a harsh microenvironment and retinal pigment epithelium is damaged. We provide established and new methods for assessing cones and retinal pigment epithelium, together with new results. We investigated conditions under which cones can be imaged and could guide light, despite the proximity of less than ideal retinal pigment epithelium.

• Publication year

  2020

• Venue

  Ophthalmic & physiological optics

• Publication date

  2020-02-04

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1111/opo.12670PMID 32017191PMCID 7155023
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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