Pattern of ocular dominance columns and cytochrome oxidase activity in a macaque monkey with naturally occurring anisometropic amblyopia

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 681-689

  Horton, Jonathan C ^a   Hocking, Davina R ^a   Kiorpes, Lynne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amblyopia; Anisometropia; Cytochrome oxidase; Ocular dominance columns; Stereopsis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031194254     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523800012645     Document Type: Article

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