Weak gender effects on transient pupillary light reflex

Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical

Volumn 147, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 9-13

  Fan, Xiaofei ^a   Hearne, Leonard ^a   Lei, Bo ^a   Miles, Judith H ^b   Takahashi, Nicole ^b   Yao, Gang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b University of Missouri   (United States)

Author keywords

Gender; Pupillary light reflex; Stimulus intensity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; DARK ADAPTATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; LIGHT ADAPTATION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUPIL REFLEX; PUPILLOGRAPHY; SEX DIFFERENCE; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ADAPTATION, OCULAR; ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; AGING; DARK ADAPTATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRIS; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; REFLEX, PUPILLARY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 64649106069     PISSN: 15660702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.autneu.2008.12.010     Document Type: Article

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