Light intensity modulates corneal power and refraction in the chick eye exposed to continuous light

Vision Research

Volumn 48, Issue 21, 2008, Pages 2329-2335

  Cohen, Yuval ^a,b   Belkin, Michael ^a   Yehezkel, Oren ^a   Avni, Isaac ^b   Polat, Uri ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b ASSAF HAROFEH MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Chicks; Hyperopia; Light intensity; Myopia; Refractive error

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; CHICK; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA REFLEX; ENUCLEATION; EYE REFRACTION; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATOR; KERATOMETRY; LIGHT EXPOSURE; LIGHT INTENSITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINOSCOPY;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANTERIOR CHAMBER; BIOMETRY; CHICKENS; CORNEA; CORNEAL TOPOGRAPHY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; EYE; FEMALE; HYPEROPIA; LIGHT; LIGHTING; REFRACTION, OCULAR; VITREOUS BODY;

EID: 51849087137     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2008.07.010     Document Type: Article

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