A role for choroidal lymphatics during recovery from form deprivation myopia?

Optometry and Vision Science

Volumn 76, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 796-803

  Junghans, Barbara M ^a   Crewther, Sheila G ^a   Liang, Helena ^b   Crewther, David P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chick; Choriocapillaris; Choroid; Fenestrations; Lymphatics; Myopia

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HUMAN REHABILITATION ENGINEERING; PATIENT REHABILITATION;

CHOROIDAL LYMPHATICS; FENESTRATIONS;

VISION;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CHOROID; CHOROID CAPILLARY LAYER; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EXTRAVASCULAR SPACE; FENESTRATION; FLUID BALANCE; HOMEOSTASIS; MYOPIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; CHOROID; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EDEMA; HOMEOSTASIS; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MYOPIA; WATER-ELECTROLYTE BALANCE;

EID: 0033231054     PISSN: 10405488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006324-199911000-00028     Document Type: Article

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