Insulin acts as a powerful stimulator of axial myopia in chicks

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 13-23

  Feldkaemper, Marita P ^a   Neacsu, Irina ^a   Schaeffel, Frank ^a  

^a Institute for Ophthalmic Research   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE FACTOR 1; GLUCAGON; GLUCOSE; INSULIN; MESSENGER RNA; ACTIN; ANTIDIABETIC AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR EYE CHAMBER; ARTICLE; CHICK; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA CURVATURE; EYE AXIS LENGTH; EYE DEVELOPMENT; HYPERMETROPIA; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LENS; MALE; MYOPIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION INDEX; RETINA AMACRINE CELL; SPECTACLES; VITREOUS BODY; ANIMAL; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CHICKEN; CORNEA; DISEASE MODEL; DOSE RESPONSE; EYE; EYE REFRACTION; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INJECTION; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSORY DEPRIVATION;

ACTINS; AMACRINE CELLS; ANIMALS; CHICKENS; CORNEA; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE PROTEIN 1; EYE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GLUCAGON; GLUCOSE; HYPEROPIA; HYPOGLYCEMIC AGENTS; INJECTIONS; INSULIN; MALE; MYOPIA; REFRACTION, OCULAR; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; VITREOUS BODY;

EID: 58249092161     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.08-1702     Document Type: Article

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