The Role of Vitamin A to The Eye

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1 To protect the retina by absorbing the short-wave blue light
and ultraviolet radiation and reducing oxidative stress.
2 Vitamin A is essential for many physiological processes, including
maintaining the integrity and function of all surface tissues (epithelia) of
the eye.
3 Vitamin A ensures the conjunctiva are able to produce mucous and
provide a barrier to infection.
Textbook of Medical Physiology
Arthur C. Guyton, John E. Hall
11th edition
2006
Elsevier Inc

4 Vitamin A is present both in the cytoplasm of

the rods and in the pigment layer of the retina.
Therefore, vitamin A is normally always
available to form new retinal when needed.
Conversely, when there is excess retinal in the
retina.
5 Vitamin A is an important precursor of the
photosensitive chemicals of the rods and
cones.
Human Physiology: From Cells to Systems,
Seventh Edition
Lauralee Sherwood
2010
Brooks/Cole, Cengage Learning

6 Adequate amounts of vitamin A must be

available for the synthesis of
photopigments.
7 In ocular surface, vitamin A plays an important role in the maintenance
of the cornea integrity.
8 Vitamin A vitamin A plays an important role in the formation of ocular
lipofuscin
Lipofuscin granules in the retinal pigment epithelium are lipid protein
aggregates which are thought to represent the lifelong accumulation of
the non-degradable end products from the phagocytosis of photoreceptor
outer segments.