The diurnal, axial eye growth rhythm in chicks is influenced by the diurnal light/dark illumination cycle;Der tagliche axiale Augenwachstumsrhythmus in Kucken wird vom taglichen Hell-Dunkel-Zyklus beeinflusst

Klinische Monatsblatter fur Augenheilkunde

Volumn 212, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 385-387

  Schmid, Gregor ^a,b   Papastergiou, Georgios ^b   Riva, Charles ^a,b,c   Petrig, Benno ^a   Laties, Alan ^b   Stone, Richard ^b  

^a Institut de Recherche en Ophtalmologie   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Axial eye length; Chick; Eye growth; Laser Doppler interferometry

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE AXIS LENGTH; GROWTH RATE; ILLUMINATION; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; NONHUMAN; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; AGE; ANIMAL; BIOMETRY; EYE; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LIGHT; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BIOMETRY; CHICKENS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; EYE; FEMALE; LIGHT; MALE; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 0031865968     PISSN: 00232165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2008-1034913     Document Type: Article

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