Possible links between photoreceptor disc defects, light damage and a rhodopsin-mediated death signal clarify the connection between a diverse set of retinal insults and apoptotic cell death.
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Wright, A. For want of a disc, the cell was lost….. Nat Med 6, 508–510 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1038/74985
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