Ocular dominance column width and contrast sensitivity in monkeys reared with strabismus or anisometropia

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 3036-3042

  Crawford, Morris L J ^a   Harwerth, Ronald S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE;

AMBLYOPIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANISOMETROPIA; ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERGENT STRABISMUS; ENUCLEATION; EYE DOMINANCE; HISTOCHEMISTRY; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRABISMUS; VISUAL CORTEX;

AMBLYOPIA; ANIMALS; ANISOMETROPIA; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DOMINANCE, OCULAR; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; ESOTROPIA; MACACA MULATTA; NEURONS, AFFERENT; STAINING AND LABELING; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 4344602971     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.04-0029     Document Type: Article

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