Effect of dopamine and its receptors on the development of visual deprivation myopia

Abstract

Myopic population of China is already nearly 600 million, the rate of teenager myopic occupies the first place in the world, myopia hsa already became one of the main diseases that endangers our adolescent's health. Dopamine is the main catecholamine in retina. Many studies have found that increasing the content of dopamine can effectively inhibit the development of myopia. Form-deprivation myopia is a classical method of myopia modeling. By observing the influence of dopamine and its receptors on the development of form-deprivation myopia, its role in the development of myopia can be reflected, and it is of great significance to guide and control the occurrence and development of myopia. In this paper, the effects of dopamine and its receptors on the development of form-deprivation myopia were reviewed in order to provide reference for the prevention and treatment of myopia.

Keywords

• dopamine
• dopamine receptors
• myopia
• form-deprivation
• apomorphine