If a patient's retinal bipolar cells lose their ability to respond to glutamate released by photoreceptors, which consequence follows?

💡 Explanation

When bipolar cells cannot respond to glutamate, they are unable to relay signals from photoreceptors to ganglion cells, because this disruption prevents visual information from being transmitted. Therefore, light perception is impaired, rather than enhanced dark adaptation or color acuity, which depend on functional bipolar cell signaling.

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