According to new research in an article
by Christine Hsu
published in January 2013 on Medical
daily, it is essential for unborn babies to be exposed to light in the womb
in order to develop healthy eyes.
A new study on mice found that the eyes
also need light for healthy development during pregnancy.
After
experimenting on mouse models, researchers from the Cincinnati
Children's Hospital Medical Center and the University
of California, San Francisco, found that the activation of the newly
described light-response pathway happens during pregnancy to activate the
developmental process that produces a healthy eye.
Scientists say that the finding, published in the journal Nature, offers a new
basic understanding of fetal eye development and eye diseases caused by
vascular disorders such as retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) that can blind
premature infants.
Scientists explained that because several
stages of eye development occur after birth, it was always assumed that the
role light played in the development of the eye would also happen only after
birth.
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