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Cells in eye not there just for looks

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Müller cells guide light to receptors in the back of the eye

David L. Shenkenberg

Until recently, it was believed that light travels to receptors in the back of the eye by uncontrolled scattering, but researchers from Universität Leipzig and Universität Göttingen, both in Germany, and from Universidade Central de Caribe in Bayamon, Puerto Rico, and from the University of Cambridge in the UK, now have discovered that Müller cells guide light to those receptors. For more than a century, it has been known that Müller cells are present in the eye, but they have been ignored until recently, according to principal investigator Andreas Reichenbach. It also was known that they...Read full article

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    Published: July 2007
    BiophotonicsConsumerfibersMicroscopyMüller cellsreceptorsResearch & Technology

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