Acronym for "repressed psychokinetic energy".
Retinal pigment epithelium. a very thin, pigmented cell layer directly beneath the retina. It provides nutrients and various survival factors to the photoreceptors and carries waste products away. A disease causing mutation expressed in the RPE causes congenital stationary night blindness.
Retinal Pigment Epithelium. Pigment cell layer just outside the retina that nourishes retinal visual cells; is firmly attached to underlying choroid and overlying retinal visual cells- composed of one layer of cells that are densely packed with pigment granules.
Retinal Pigment Epithelium. A very thin, pigmented cell layer directly beneath the retina. RPE cells lie between the photoreceptor cell layer of the retina and the choroid. The RPE obtains nutrients and oxygen from the choroid and provides these to the photoreceptor cells. It also carries waste products from photoreceptor cells for disposal in the choroid. The RPE provides vitamin A and survival factors to the retina (see survival factors).
Retinal pigment epithelium. A single layer of cells between the retina and the underlying blood vessels.
A layer of cells crucial to the light-gathering rods and cones. One of the first layers to experience damage in AMD.
RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM. The pigment cell layer that nourishes the retinal cells; located just outside the retina and attached to the choroid.
Acronym for retinal pigment epithelium.