Brief daily periods of unrestricted vision can prevent form-deprivation amblyopia

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 2468-2477

  Wensveen, Janice M ^a   Harwerth, Ronald S ^a   Hung, Li Fang ^a,b   Ramamirtham, Ramkumar ^a,b   Kee, Chea Su ^c   Smith III, Earl L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c NEW ENGLAND COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBLYOPIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE; HUMAN; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTACLES; VISION; ANIMAL; DISEASE MODEL; MACACA; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; TIME;

AMBLYOPIA; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; MACACA MULATTA; RETINA; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; TIME FACTORS; VISION;

EID: 33745659702     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.05-0885     Document Type: Article

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