Influence of light and defocus on the choroid during emmetropization and myopia development in children and young adults

儿童和青少年正视化和近视发展过程中光线和散焦对脉络膜的影响

• 批准号: 10615118
• 负责人: Lisa A Ostrin
• 金额: $ 34.43万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-07-01 至 2025-04-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10615118
• 关键词: Adult; Affect; Animal Model; Animals; Blood Vessels; Child; Choroid; Choroidal Neovascularization; Circadian Rhythms; Clinical Treatment; Compensation; Cone; Contact Lenses; Country; Development; Dose; Economic Burden; Epidemic; Exposure to; Eye; Eyeglasses; Focal Adhesions; Glaucoma; Goals; Growth; Heart Rate; Hour; Human; Laboratories; Learning; Light; Link; Macaca mulatta; Measures; Mediating; Melatonin; Myopia; Optics; Pattern; Peripheral; Phase; Physiologic Intraocular Pressure; Play; Population; Positioning Attribute; Prevalence; Process; Refractive Errors; Regulation; Research; Retina; Retinal Detachment; Role; Source; Structure; Structure of choroid plexus; Techniques; Testing; Therapeutic; Thick; Time; Tupaiidae; Urbanization; Vascular blood supply; Visual; age effect; age related; circadian; effective therapy; emmetropization; health economics; innovation; lens; nonhuman primate; novel; prevent; response; sensor technology; socioeconomics; targeted treatment; treatment effect; treatment strategy; young adult

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Myopia, or nearsightedness, is an epidemic, with up to 90% of the population in some urbanized countries affected. Efforts have increased to understand the regulatory mechanisms underlying myopic eye growth due to the potentially blinding complications and socio-economic health problems associated with myopia. The choroid, a dynamic vascular structure posterior to the retina, has been implicated in eye growth control. Our long term goal is to elucidate the role of the choroid in myopia progression and treatment. Our central hypothesis is that the choroid is locally regulated by optical factors and visual input to influence thickness, modulate the position of the retina, and compensate for defocus in children. Evidence from animal studies suggests that diurnal patterns of choroidal thickness, which can be influenced by light exposure, are altered in myopic eye growth. Animal studies have also shown that narrow band long wavelength light (i.e. “red”) thickens the choroid and ultimately prevents myopic axial elongation. However, potential effects of narrow band light have not been tested in humans. In adults, recent studies have shown that imposed full field spectacle lens defocus modulates choroidal thickness in a bidirectional manner. The observed choroidal changes to myopic and hyperopic blur may contribute to treatment effects from currently used optical strategies to slow myopia progression in children. Here, we will examine the choroid in children to understand how circadian rhythm, light exposure, and defocus modulate choroidal thickness through the following specific aims: 1) we will investigate the influence of light exposure and refractive error on diurnal patterns of choroidal thickness and relationships with other known light-dependent ocular and systemic diurnal processes in non- myopic and myopic children, including intraocular pressure, heart rate, and systemic melatonin concentration, 2) we will determine the operational range, dose-response relationship, sensitive period, and time-of-day effects of the choroid to imposed full field myopic and hyperopic defocus, as well as changes in choroidal thickness induced by peripheral myopic defocus, using soft multifocal contact lenses similar to those currently utilized for myopia control, and 3) we will determine the capacity to which narrow band long wavelength light drives choroidal thickness changes in humans, as demonstrated in animal models, and determine whether changes are dependent on defocus mechanisms induced by longitudinal chromatic aberrations. These finding will be significant because the proposed studies will fill a critical void in our understanding of the role of visual input on choroidal modulation in children, shed light on mechanisms underlying optical treatment strategies for myopia control, and aid in the development of novel myopia treatment options. The research is innovative because findings will contribute to the development of targeted treatment options to prevent myopia and slow progression.

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