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What are the 3 layers of the eye?

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  • fibrous layer - corneoscleral coat
  • vascular coat - uvea
  • retina
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What are the chambers of the eye?

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anterior and posterior segments that further divide into different chambers

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Describe the cornea of the eye

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in the corneoscleral coat

  • anterior 1/6 of the eyeball
  • continuous with the sclera
  • transparent and avascular
  • provides 2/3s of refractive power
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What are the five layers of the cornea?

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1) corneal epithelium
2) Bowman’s membrane
3) corneal stroma
4) Descement’s membrane
5) corneal endothelium

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What type of epithelium is corneal epithelium?

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stratified squamous (non-keratinized) epithelium attached via desmososmes

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What do apex of the corneal epithelial cells have that help retain tears secreted, preventing drying of the cornea?

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microvili

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What do corneal epithelial cells have that protect DNA from UV damage?

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ferritin (melanin is absent)

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What innervates corneal epithelium?

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CN V1 (ophthalmic division)

  • corneal blink reflex
  • very sensitive
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What is Bowman’s membrane?

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acellular specialized basement membrane (anterior)

  • does not regenerate
  • teminates at corneoscleral limbus
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What do Bowman’s membrane contribute?

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  • strength and stability of
    cornea
  • acts as barrier to prevent spread of infections
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What happens when Bowman’s membrane is damaged?

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creates an opaque scar that can impair vision

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What is corneal stroma?

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90% of corneal thickness

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What maintains the transparency of the cornea?

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corneal stroma

- collagen fibrils arranged in lamellae where adjacent lamellae are arranged at right angles to each other

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What are responsible for the precise spacing of the collagen fibrils in corneal stroma?

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proteoglycans and collagen V

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What happens when there’s a disruption to the lamellar arrangement of corneal stroma?

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opaque cornea

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What is Descemet’s membrane?

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posterior basement membrane of the cornea endothelium (next layer)

  • regenerates after injury
  • thickens with age
  • interwoven meshwork of fibers and pores
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What does Descemet’s membrane help maintain?

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normal curvature of the cornea through connections with the sclera and ciliary muscle

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What type of epithelium is corneal endothelium?

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simple squamous epithelium

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Briefly describe corneal endothelium

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  • faces the anterior chamber of the eyeball
  • epithelium is joined by zonula adherens, zonula occludens and desmosomes
  • limited proliferative ability
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What happens when corneal endothelium has been injured?

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corneal opacity

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Which layer of the cornea is responsible for virtually all of the metabolic exchanges of the cornea?

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corneal endothelium

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Briefly describe the sclera

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  • white part of the eye
  • posterior 5/6s of the eyeball
  • tough fibrous CT (collagen and elastic fibers) to maintain shpae of the eyeball
  • Tenon’s capsule
  • pierced by optic nerve, blood vessels and other nerves
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What is the Tenon’s capsules?

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fascial sheath over the surface of the sclera where the extraocular muscles insert

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What is the corneoscleral limbus?

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  • location of stem cells for corneal epithelium

- location of iridocorneal angle

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What is the iridocorneal angle?
- trabecular meshwork - formation of the canal of Schlemm (scleral venous sinus) - apparatus for the outflow of the aqueous humor
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What does the uvea (vascular coat) contain?
- iris - ciliary body - choroid
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Briefly describe the iris
- most anterior portion - pupil - anterior and posterior pigment epithelium - contractile diaphragm in front of the lens (dilator and sphincter pupillae)
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Where is ciliary body?
area anterior to the Ora serrata (defines the anterior limit of the retina and choroid and the posterior limit of the ciliary body)
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Ciliary body is lined by which type of epithelium?
two layers of simple columnar epithelium separated by a basement membrane
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What are the characteristics of the inner layer of ciliary body?
- adjacent to aqueous humor - non-pigmented - fluid-transporting epithelium - complex cell-to-cell junctions - well developed zonula occludens
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What are the characteristics of the outer layer of ciliary body?
- pigmented, rich in melanin - less developed cell-to-cell junctions - ciliary channels
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What are ciliary processes?
- 75 radial ridges | - secretion and anchoring zonule fibers, form suspensory ligament of the lens
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Describe the flow of aqueous humor
posterior chamber > pupil > anterior chamber > trabecular meshwork > Canal of Schlemm > venous system
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What produces aqueous humor?
ciliary processes
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In regards to aqueous humor, what is blood?
aqueous barrier
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Describe the ciliary muscle
- longitudinal fibers stretch choroid - radial fibers flatten lens, distal vision - circular fibers reduces tension on lens, near vision
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Briefly describe the choroid
- dark-brown vascular sheet, prevents reflection of light waves entering - lies between the sclera and retina
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Why is the choroid dark-brown?
abundance of melanocytes
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Briefly describe the choriocapillary layer
- inner vascular layer - richer in small fenestrated blood vessels - provides nutrients to the retina
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What is the Bruch's membrane?
aka Lamina vitrea - thin, amorphous hyaline membrane - innermost layer of choroid - five layers formed from choroid and a retinal layer
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What are the five layers formed from choroid and a retinal layer?
1) basal lamina of endothelial cells of choriocapillary layer 2) collagen fibers 3) elastic fibers 4) collagen fibers 5) basal lamina of the retinal epithelial cells
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What does neural retina also known as?
retina proper
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What are the 4 regions of neural retina?
1) non-photosensitive 2) photosensitive 3) optic disc (papilla) 4) macula lutea and the fovea centralis
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Non-photosensitive region
- anterior to the ora serrata - lines the inner aspect of the ciliary body and posterior surface of the iris - non-visual portion
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Photosensitive region
- posterior to the ova serrata - pierced by the optic nerve - most of retina is visual portion
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Optic disc (papilla)
- site where optic nerve joins retina | - devoid of photoreceptors, blind spot
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Fovea centralis
contains only cones (photoreceptor cell)
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Which part of the retina has the greatest point of visual acuity?
Fovea centralis
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Macula lutea
- "yellow spot" - area that surrounds the fovea centralis - 2.5 cm lateral to the optic disc
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What is RPE?
retinal pigment epithelium
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Why is RPE so heavily pigmented?
rods and cones are the photosensitive cells
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RPE is attached to what?
attach through Bruch's membrane to the choriocapillary layer of the choroid
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What is meant by "detached retina"?
mechanical separation at the junction where RPE is attached through Bruch's membrane to the choriocapillary layer of the choroid
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What are the four groups of cells found in the retina?
1) photoreceptors 2) conducting neurons 3) association and other neurons 4) supporting (neuroglial) cells
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What are the two types of photoreceptors?
rods and cones
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What are the two types of conducting neurons?
bipolar and ganglion
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What are the other neurons associated with cells of retina?
1) horizontal 2) centrifugal 3) interplexiform 4) amacrine
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What are the supporting (neruoglial) cells?
1) Muller's 2) microglial 3) astrocytes
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What are the ten layers of the retina?
1) RPE 2) layer of rods and cones 3) outer limiting membrane 4) outer nuclear layer 5) outer plexiform layer 6) inner nuclear layer 7) inner plexiform layer 8) ganglion cell layer 9) layer of optic nerve fibers 10) inner limiting membrane
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What kind of epithelium is RPE?
simple cuboidal
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What are the functions of RPE?
1) absorption of light (prevent reflection and glare) 2) blood-retina barrier 3) participate in metabolic processes in the restoration of photosensitivity 4) phagocytosis and disposal of membranous discs from the rods and cones
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Which part of the layer of rods and cones is the photoreceptive part?
polarized cells in apical portions | - specialized dendrites
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Which is the most abundant photoreceptive cell?
rods | - low intensity light
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What does the outer segment of the rods composed of?
flattened discs composed of two membranes, containing rhodopsin
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What is rhodopsin?
visual purple that gets bleached by the light coming in
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Which vitamin is needed for normal vision?
Retinal, vit. A derived from chromophore - light causes conformational changes in retinal and converting it to retinol - deficiency will lead to "night-blindness"
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What is the function of inner segment of rods?
- metabolic machinery for biosynthetic and energy producing reactions of these cells
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What separates outer segment from inner segment in rods?
connecting stalk containing cilium
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What causes signal to be transmitted through the layers of the retina to the ganglion cells?
light induced hyperpolarization
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Where are cones mostly found?
highly concentrated in the fovea centralis
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What colors are cones sensitive to?
Iodopsin | - red, green, and blue
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What's the shape of the outer segment of cones? How is it different than rods?
Cones look like cones | Rods look like rods
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Stacked discs of cones are stacked where?
stacked discs are attached to plasma membrane (differ from rods)
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What is the function of inner segment of cones?
synthesizes proteins that are uniformly distributed throughout the outer segment (unlike rods)
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What forms the outer limiting membrane?
Muller cells - not a true membrane
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What's in the outer nuclear layer?
cell bodies of rods and cones
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What's in the outer plexiform layer?
synapses between photoreceptor cells, bipolar cells and horizontal cells
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What's the function of bipolar cells?
summation of the signals from photoreceptor cells
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What does low light intensity stimulate? How do bipolar cells summate signals?
retina - at the peripheral region 100 rods are stimulated whereas at the macula lutea, 10 rods are stimulated - bipolar cells will summate this and will lead to an impulse to the brain - at the fovea centralis, one cone synapse with one bipolar cell
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What's in the inner nuclear layer?
nuclei of bipolar, horizontal, amacrin, interplexiform and Muller cells
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What's in the inner plexiform layer?
synapses between processes of bipolar, ganglion, interplexiform and amacrin cells
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What's in the ganglion cell layer?
cell bodies of multipolar ganglion cells
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What does hyperpolarization of rods and cones cause in ganglion cells?
depolarization which then sends action potentials through axons into the brain
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What's in the layer of optic nerve fibers?
- axons of ganglion cells from the optic nerve | - optic disc "blind spot", also point of exit for optic nerve
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What's in the inner limiting membrane?
basal laminae of the Muller cells
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What's the blood supply to the retina?
central retinal artery from ophthalmic artery
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What are crystalline lens?
lens in posterior chamber of the anterior part of the eyeball - biconvex, transparent and very elastic - focuses light rays on the retina - avascular - no innervation
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What are the three parts to crystalline lens?
1) lens capsule 2) subcapsular epithelium 3) lens fibers
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Lens capsule
- basal lamina | - type IV collagen fibers and proteglycans
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Subcapsular epithelium
- cuboidal layer of cells only on anterior surface of lens - connected by gap junctions - gives rise to lens fibers at the equator
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Lens fibers
- produced throughout life, rate decreases with age - filled with crystallins (lens protein) causing cells to lose their nuclei and organelles - cataracts, loss of transparency of the lens - fibers stiffen and enlarge with age, Presbyopia, loss of accomodation
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What's the composition of vitreous body?
transparent gel, 99% water, 1% collagen, glycosaminoglycans and hyalocytes
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What are the accessory structures of the eye?
1) conjunctiva 2) eyelids 3) lacrimal apparatus
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What kind of epithelium does conjunctiva have?
stratified columnar epithelium with globet cells and basal almina overlying a loose connective tissue
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What are the two parts of conjunctiva?
1) palpebral | 2) bulbar
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What is conjunctivitis?
pink eye
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What do secretions of the conjunctiva produce?
tear film to protect cornea
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What are the different parts of the eyelids?
1) tarsal plates 2) sweat glands of Moll 3) Meibomian (tarsal) glands 4) glands of Zeis
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Sweat glands of Moll
apocrine glands open into eyelash follicles
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Meibomian (tarsal) gands
sebaceous glands in the tarsus, open onto the free edge of the lid
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What prevents rapid evaporation on the eyeball?
Meibomian glands and the tear film from conjunctiva
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Glands of Zeis
smaller sebaceous glands open into eyelash follicles

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