The albino chick as a model for studying ocular developmental anomalies, including refractive errors, associated with albinism

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 431-442

  Rymer, Jodi ^a   Choh, Vivian ^b   Bharadwaj, Shrikant ^c   Padmanabhan, Varuna ^a   Modilevsky, Laura ^a   Jovanovich, Elizabeth ^a   Yeh, Brenda ^a   Zhang, Zhan ^a   Guan, Huanxian ^a   Payne, W ^d   Wildsoet, Christine F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

albino; development; emmetropization; myopia; refractive error

Indexed keywords

MELANIN; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE;

ALBINISM; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTIGMATISM; CELL ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOGRAPHY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ASSAY; EXON; EYE DEVELOPMENT; EYE DISEASE; EYE EXAMINATION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; LENS; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MYOPIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPTOKINETIC NYSTAGMUS; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION ERROR; RETINOSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VISUAL ACUITY;

ALBINISM, OCULAR; ANIMALS; BIOMETRY; CHICKENS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; EYE; GENE EXPRESSION; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; MUTATION; MYOPIA; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE; REFRACTIVE ERRORS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 34948814141     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2007.06.010     Document Type: Article

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