Darkness causes myopia in visually experienced tree shrews

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 47, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 4700-4707

  Norton, Thomas T ^a   Amedo, Angela O ^a   Siegwart Jr , John T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DARK ADAPTATION; DARKNESS; HYPERMETROPIA; ILLUMINATION; MEASUREMENT; MONOCULAR DEPRIVATION; MYOPIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION INDEX; SCANDENTIA; VITREOUS BODY; ANIMAL; CORNEA; EYE REFRACTION; NEWBORN; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CORNEA; DARK ADAPTATION; MYOPIA; REFRACTION, OCULAR; TUPAIA; VISUAL PERCEPTION; VITREOUS BODY;

EID: 34247139728     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.05-1641     Document Type: Article

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