title: Rods Feed Cones to Keep them Alive.
abstract: Cone photoreceptors, responsible for high-resolution and color vision, progressively degenerate following the death of rod photoreceptors in the blinding disease retinitis pigmentosa. Aït-Ali et al. describe a molecular mechanism by which RdCVF, a factor normally released by rods, controls glucose entry into cones, enhancing their survival.
authors.affiliation: Neural Circuit Laboratories, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, 4058 Basel, Switzerland. Electronic address: jacek.krol@fmi.ch.
authors.forename: Jacek
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Krol
authors.affiliation: Neural Circuit Laboratories, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, 4058 Basel, Switzerland; Faculty of Medicine, University of Basel, 4056 Basel, Switzerland. Electronic address: botond.roska@fmi.ch.
authors.forename: Botond
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Roska
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005136:Eye Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D006019:Glycolysis; D006801:Humans; D013879:Thioredoxins / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D005136:Eye Proteins; C488098:NXNL1 protein, human; C525119:RdCVF protein, mouse; D013879:Thioredoxins