The Effect of the Nonspecific Nitric Oxide Synthase Inhibitor N G-Nitro-L-Arginine Methyl Ester on the Choroidial Compensatory Response to Myopic Defocus in Chickens

Optometry and Vision Science

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 111-118

  Nickla, Debora L ^a   Wildsoet, Christine F ^b  

^a NEW ENGLAND COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Choroid; Defocus; Eye growth regulation; Myopia; Nitric oxide

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; FOCUSING; LENSES; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

MYOPIC DEFOCUS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

VISION;

N(G) NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE INHIBITOR;

A SCAN; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CHOROID; COMPENSATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; ECHOGRAPHY; ENZYME INHIBITION; HYPERMETROPIA; MYOPIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SPECTACLES; THICKNESS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CHICKENS; CHOROID; ENZYME INHIBITORS; FIXATION, OCULAR; MYOPIA; NG-NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

EID: 1242296767     PISSN: 10405488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006324-200402000-00009     Document Type: Article

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