ganglion

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Specialised ganglion cells are significantly involved in this process, which -- like the cones and rods -- are sensitive to light and react particularly strongly to short-wavelength light at a wavelength of around 490 nanometres.

From Science Daily • Dec. 22, 2023

Yet, while mice are a favorite model animal for studying glaucoma, they have very few of the midget retinal ganglion cell counterparts.

From Science Daily • Dec. 13, 2023

It found people with Parkinson's had a thinner ganglion cell-inner plexiform layer and inner nuclear layer in the eye.

From BBC • Aug. 22, 2023

Q: In his book “Migraine,” Dr. Oliver Sacks says that when migraines develop, they nearly always increase nerve activity first in the sphenopalatine ganglion, a cluster of nerves located at the top of the throat.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 2, 2023

You might begin at the local beach, which functions as a sort of ganglion.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas