Blue light stimulation of the blind spot in human: from melanopsin to clinically relevant biomarkers of myopia
Ana Amorim-de-Sousa, Ranjay Chakraborty, Michael J. Collins, Paulo Fernandes, José González‑Méijome, Jens Hannibal, Hosein Hoseini-Yazdi, Scott A. Read, Jens Ellrich, Tim Schilling · 2024
Read Blue light stimulation of the blind spot in human: from melanopsin to clinically relevant biomarkers of myopia by Ana Amorim-de-Sousa, Ranjay Chakraborty, Michael J. Collins, Paulo Fernandes, José González‑Méijome, Jens Hannibal, Hosein Hoseini-Yazdi, Scott A. Read, Jens Ellrich, Tim Schilling (2024) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/pmc-11533427.txt.
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Ana Amorim-de-Sousa and co-authors study blue light shone on the eye's blind spot in a 2024 paper on near-sight. Time outdoors guards against near-sight, so light itself may steer eye growth. A pigment in some eye cells senses blue light and peaks at the disc where the nerve leaves the eye, which is the blind spot.
The team traced how blue light at that spot sets off signals tied to signs used in clinics for near-sight. They set out the dose and place of light that the pigment calls for. Readers learn a fresh route by which plain daylight may hold eye growth in check.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Ana Amorim-de-Sousa, Ranjay Chakraborty, Michael J. Collins, Paulo Fernandes, José González‑Méijome, Jens Hannibal, Hosein Hoseini-Yazdi, Scott A. Read, Jens Ellrich, Tim Schilling |
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| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 33 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |