Hard contact lenses alter accommodative gain but do not prevent refractive adaptation in chicks

Optometry and Vision Science

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 20-27

  Schmid, Katrina L ^a   Wildsoet, Christine F ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

accommodation; astigmatism; chick; contact lens; emmetropization; myopia

Indexed keywords

GROWTH KINETICS; LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES; MEDICAL PROBLEMS; TISSUE; VISION;

ASTIGMATISM; CHICKS; CORNEA; EMMETROPIZATION; HARD LENSES; HYPEROPIA;

CONTACT LENSES;

ACCOMMODATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASTIGMATISM; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE DEVELOPMENT; EYE REFRACTION; HARD CONTACT LENS; HYPERMETROPIA; MALE; MYOPIA; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTACLES; VISUAL ADAPTATION; VITREOUS BODY;

ACCOMMODATION, OCULAR; ADAPTATION, OCULAR; ANIMALS; ANTERIOR EYE SEGMENT; CHICKENS; CONTACT LENSES; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; MALE; REFRACTIVE ERRORS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0031059273     PISSN: 10405488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006324-199701000-00016     Document Type: Article

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