{"id":304780,"date":"2024-05-16T18:36:21","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T18:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/study-suggests-high-frequency-electrical-noise-results-in-congenital-night-blindness\/"},"modified":"2024-05-16T18:36:21","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T18:36:21","slug":"study-suggests-high-frequency-electrical-noise-results-in-congenital-night-blindness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/study-suggests-high-frequency-electrical-noise-results-in-congenital-night-blindness\/","title":{"rendered":"Study suggests high-frequency electrical \u2018noise\u2019 results in congenital night blindness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Credit: King-Wai Yau Laboratory In what they believe is a solution to a 30-year biological mystery, neuroscientists at Johns Hopkins Medicine say they have used genetically engineered mice to address how one mutation in the gene for the light-sensing protein rhodopsin results in congenital stationary night blindness. The condition, present from birth, causes poor vision in low-light settings. The findings, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, demonstrate that the rhodopsin gene mutation, called G90D, produces an unusual background electrical &#8220;noise&#8221; that desensitizes the eye&#8217;s rods, those cells <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/study-suggests-high-frequency-electrical-noise-results-in-congenital-night-blindness\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Credit: King-Wai Yau Laboratory In what they believe is a solution to a 30-year biological mystery, neuroscientists at Johns Hopkins Medicine say they have used genetically engineered mice to address how one mutation in the gene for the light-sensing protein rhodopsin results in congenital stationary night blindness. The condition, present from birth, causes poor vision <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/study-suggests-high-frequency-electrical-noise-results-in-congenital-night-blindness\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}