Inhibiting the transient choroidal thickening response using the nitric oxide synthase inhibitor l-NAME prevents the ameliorative effects of visual experience on ocular growth in two different visual paradigms

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 456-464

  Nickla, Debora L ^a   Wilken, Erika ^a   Lytle, Grace ^a   Yom, Sung ^a   Mertz, James ^a  

^a NEW ENGLAND COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY   (United States)

Author keywords

chicks; choroid; emmetropization; l NAME; myopic defocus; nitric oxide; sclera

Indexed keywords

GLYCOSAMINOGLYCAN; N(G) NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE INHIBITOR; PROTEOGLYCAN; RETINOIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR EYE CHAMBER; ARTICLE; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; CHICKEN; CHOROID; CONTACT LENS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; EYE; GROWTH; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MONOCULAR VISION; MYOPIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOGLYCAN SYNTHESIS; REFRACTION ERROR; REFRACTOMETER; SCLERA; SYNTHESIS; VISION;

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; CHOROID; ENZYME INHIBITORS; EYE; FORM PERCEPTION; INJECTIONS; MYOPIA; NG-NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE; PROTEOGLYCANS; SCLERA; TRETINOIN; VITREOUS BODY;

EID: 33744898798     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2006.01.029     Document Type: Article

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