Colchicine causes excessive ocular growth and myopia in chicks

Vision Research

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 685-697

  Fischer, Andy J ^a   Morgan, Ian G ^b   Stell, William K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Amacrine cell; Chicken; Form deprivation myopia; Ganglion cell; Ocular growth

Indexed keywords

COLCHICINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA CURVATURE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MYOPIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA AMACRINE CELL; RETINA GANGLION CELL;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEIN, VITAMIN D-DEPENDENT; CELL DEATH; CHICKENS; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; COLCHICINE; CORNEA; DNA DAMAGE; ENKEPHALINS; EYE; FORM PERCEPTION; GLUCAGON; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; ISOMERISM; MALE; MYOPIA; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEINS; RETINA; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL PEPTIDE;

EID: 0032916758     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(98)00178-3     Document Type: Article

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