Transient increases in choroidal thickness are consistently associated with brief daily visual stimuli that inhibit ocular growth in chicks

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 84, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 951-959

  Nickla, Debora L ^a  

^a NEW ENGLAND COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY   (United States)

Author keywords

chicks; choroid; emmetropization; form deprivation; myopia; myopic defocus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CHICK; CHOROID; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE DEVELOPMENT; MYOPIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THICKNESS; VISUAL DEPRIVATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; CHOROID; DARKNESS; EYE; MYOPIA; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SENSORY DEPRIVATION;

EID: 34247099808     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2007.01.017     Document Type: Article

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