Experimental eye enlargement in mature animals changes the retinal pigment epithelium

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 619-628

  Harman, Alison M ^a   Hoskins, Robert ^a   Beazley, Lyn D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Marsupial; Myopia; Occlusion; Retina

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL NUCLEUS; EYE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MARSUPIAL; MONOCULAR VISION; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; REFERENCE VALUE; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SUTURE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AGING; ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; CELL NUCLEUS; EYE; MACROPODIDAE; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE; REFERENCE VALUES; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SUTURES; VISION, MONOCULAR;

EID: 0033166272     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523899164022     Document Type: Article

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