Diffuser contact lenses retard axial elongation in infant rhesus monkeys

Vision Research

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 509-514

  Bradley, Dolores V ^a   Fernandes, Alcides ^a,b   Tigges, Margarete ^a,b   Boothe, Ronald G ^a,b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Axial length; Deprivation; Emmetropization; Hyperopia; Rhesus monkey

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTACT LENS; CONTRAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE AXIS LENGTH; EYE DEVELOPMENT; HYPERMETROPIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION ERROR; RHESUS MONKEY; VISION; VISUAL DEPRIVATION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 0030023483     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0042-6989(95)00279-0     Document Type: Article

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