Ocular Physiology Flashcards
What type of blinking is most common?
Spontaneous.
How many blinks is normal per minute?
12-15
What part of lid does spontaneous blinking?
palpebral
Reflex blinking nerves
CN II dazzle and menis. CN V-irritation CN VIII-loud noises.
What part of eye does reflex blinks?
palpebral
Which is the only reflex that does not involve the cortex?
Dazzle. All other begin in the frontal lobe.
What causes voluntary blinking
palpebral and orbital.
Benign essential belpharospasms
Contractions of orbiculares oculi, procures, and corrugated.
Bell’s phenomenon
Upward and out eye with forced closure
Which glands can increase secretion with blinking?
Meiobomian
What do accessory lacrimal glands do?
Basal or maintenance tears
What does the main lacrimal gland do?
Reflex or emotional tearing
Which glands help with lipid layers?
Meiobomian, Zeiss, Moll.
Horners
Contractions on closure and shortens the cannaliculi
How does blinking help tear film
Goes from lateral to medial
How many eyelashes do we have
150 on top and 75 on bottom
What is lipid layer made of
fatty acids, cholesterol, waxy esters.
How do tears change with age?
Decrease in lysozyme and lactoferrin and decreased aqueous protection
What does contact lens wear do?
Increases electrolyte and protein concentration due to tear evaportion
How do tears change under closed eye conditions
Increases IA and serum albumin
How are mucin layer unique
Capable of mixing with lipid and water.
Where are goblet cells found?
Inferonasal fornix and bulbar conj (most temporal)
What do goblet cells need for development
Vitamin A
Bitot’s spots
foamy build up of keratin on the cornea. Caused by vitamin A deficiency.
Lipid soluble vitmins
DEAK
Antioxidants
ACE
Water soluble vitamins
B and C
What is TBUT evaluating
The tear film evaporation due to an inefficient lipid layer
What does the mucin layer interact with
glycocalyx of the epithelium.
Normal tear production per minuts
1 ul/min.
Normal tear film osmolarity
308
Main ions to osmolarity
Na and K
How does DES affect tear osmolarity
Increase is osmolarity
What kind of drops would you use with DES
hypotonic. More water.
Potassium concentration in tears
Very high! helps to maintain health of corneal epithelium.
Average pH of tears
7.45
pH of tears when sleeping
decreases
pH of tears with DES
increases due to increased osmolarity
What are most ophthalmic drugs
weak bases.
Stapedius muscles
Dampen sound. Innervated by CN VII
Vestibule
Linear VOR. Movements of head or body from side to side.
Semi-circular canals
Angular VOR. Rotation movements of the body or head.
Saccades
contralateral and FEF and SC. EX: Right FEF controls saccades to the left
Pursuits
ipsilateral parietal lobe. Right pursuit driven by right parental lobe.
VOR
Your body is moving!
How are the layers of the cornea in response to water
Epithelium: lipophilic, stroma: hydrophobic, endo: lipophilic.
UV c
200-290
UV B
290-320
UV A
320-400
What absorbs from 200-300
Cornea (epi and bowman).
What absorbs from 300-400
Lens
What absorbs from 300-350
vitreous
What absorbs above 400
retina
What vitamin helps the lens
Vitamin C
What does the precise spacing in the lens do?
Destructive interferance
Corneal desturgence
The relative dehydration of the cornea
Epithelium Pump mechanism
Na in and Cl, H20 and K+. Out. Has an Na/K ATPase pumps that puts NA in stroma and NA/K/CL cotransporter Will then pump K in aqueous and CL in epithelium which then leaves with H20.
Endothelium Pump Mechanism
Pumps NA in and Cl, water, and bicarbonate out. Use an NA/K ATPase pump.
Major factors in corneal desurgence
Na in and Cl, and H20 out. (bicarbonate in endo).
K+ factor in corneal dusurgence
The sensor.
Partial pressure of O2 in the eyes with open conditions
144 mm HG
How does eye get oxygen during closed eye conditions
Palpebral conj, aqueous humor
Critical PPO2 for the cornea
10-20 mm HG.
Transmisibility
DK/t. How much oxygen will diffuse over a given thickness.
Nutrition for cornea
glucose is low in tears but high in aqueous humor. Corneal epithelial cells can also store glycogen for mitosis.
How many days for cornea to regenerate
7-14 days.
Steps when trauma to cornea happens
Mitosis in basal stops, squamous cells migrate, mitosis increases rapidly.
How long for healing if BM is damaged
8 weeks
Why can corticosteroids and tetracyclines be used for RCE
MMPs degrade hemidesmosome formation and these drugs stop that from occurring and help formation
Which layers cannot regenerate
Bowman’s and endo.
Which layer can regenreate
epithelium and descents.
Does the anterior or posterior lens change more in curvature with accommodation?
The anterior
What structure has the most protein in the body?
The lens.
How does the lens maintain it’s water balance
Na/K ATPase pump. Na leaves and water follows.
Resurgence in Epithelium vs. lens
Epithelium pumps NA in and Cl and H20 out. Lens pumps Na out.
How does lens get energy?
Anerobic metabolism. Has lots of hexokinase.
What happens with diabetic cataract?
Excess sorbitol in the lens.
Glutathione
Good for the lens.
Absobic Acid
Vitamin C. Also protects from damage.