Effects of blue light-exposed retinal pigment epithelial cells on the process of ametropia

Effects of blue light exposure on ocular parameters and choroidal blood perfusion in Guinea pig

PURPOSE

To investigate the impact of different duration of blue light exposure on ocular parameters and choroidal blood perfusion in guinea pigs with lens-induced myopia.

METHOD

Three-week-old Guinea pigs were randomly assigned to different light-environment groups. All groups were subjected to 12-h light/dark cycle. The control (NC) group was conditioned without intervention. While lens-induced myopia (LIM) groups had a -10D lens placed in the right eye and 0D in the left eye. The guinea pigs were exposed to increasing periods of blue-light (420 nm) environment for 3,6,9,12 h per day. Changes in refraction, axial length (AL), the radius of corneal curvature (CCR), choroidal thickness (ChT), and choroidal blood perfusion (ChBP)were measured in both LIM-eye and fellow-eye during the second and fourth week of LIM duration.

RESULTS

During the first two weeks of the experiment, blue light exposure raised ChBP and ChT, and the effect of suppressing myopia was proportional to the duration of blue light exposure. However, in the fourth week of the experiment, prolonged blue light (12BL) exposure led to a reduction in retinal thickness and the increase in ChT and ChBP ceased. Shorter blue light exposure had a better effect on myopia suppression, with all blue light groups statistically different from the LIM group.

CONCLUSION

Exposure to blue-light appears to have the potential to improve ChBP and ChT, thereby inhibiting the development of myopia. we speculate that blue-light inhibits the development of myopia for reasons other than longitudinal chromatic aberration (LCA). However,long-term exposure to blue-light may have adverse effects on ocular development. The next step is to investigate in depth the mechanisms by which the rational use of blue light regulates choroidal blood flow, offering new hope for the treatment of myopia.