Colchicine attenuates compensation to negative but not to positive lenses in young chicks

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 260-270

  Choh, Vivian ^a   Padmanabhan, Varuna ^b   Li, W S Jennifer ^a   Sullivan, Aaron B ^b   Wildsoet, Christine F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

axial length; chicks; colchicine; emmetropisation; optic nerve section; refractive error; retinal ganglion cell loss; vitreous chamber depth

Indexed keywords

COLCHICINE; DOPAMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL LOSS; CHICK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; HYPERMETROPIA; MYOPIA; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION ERROR; RETINA GANGLION CELL; VISION;

ANIMALS; ANTERIOR CHAMBER; CHICKENS; CHOROID; COLCHICINE; EYE; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; LENSES; REFRACTIVE ERRORS; RETINA; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; VITREOUS BODY;

EID: 39149092366     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2007.10.017     Document Type: Article

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