Spontaneous axial myopia and emmetropization in a strain of wild-type guinea pig (Cavia porcellus)

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1013-1019

  Jiang, Liqin ^a,b   Schaeffel, Frank ^c   Zhou, Xiangtian ^a,b   Zhang, Sen ^a,b   Jin, Xi ^a,b   Pan, Miaozhen ^a,b   Ye, Lingying ^a,b   Wu, Xiaomin ^a,b   Huang, Qinzhu ^a,b   Lu, Fan ^a,b   Qu, Jia ^a,b  

^a WENZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING HOSPITAL   (China)

^c Institute for Ophthalmic Research   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANISOMETROPIA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA CURVATURE; ECHOGRAPHY; GUINEA PIG; KERATOMETRY; MYOPIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; REFRACTION ERROR; RETINOSCOPY; ACCOMMODATION; ANIMAL; CORNEA; DISEASE MODEL; EYE REFRACTION; GENETICS; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PUPIL DISEASE; VISUAL ACUITY;

ACCOMMODATION, OCULAR; ANIMALS; ANISOMETROPIA; CORNEA; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GUINEA PIGS; MYOPIA; PUPIL DISORDERS; REFRACTION, OCULAR; RETINOSCOPY; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 62649140670     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.08-2463     Document Type: Article

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