Inhibiting the neuronal isoform of nitric oxide synthase has similar effects on the compensatory choroidal and axial responses to myopic defocus in chicks as does the non-specific inhibitor l-NAME

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 88, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1092-1099

  Nickla, Debora L ^a   Damyanova, Petya ^a   Lytle, Grace ^a  

^a NEW ENGLAND COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY   (United States)

Author keywords

choroid; emmetropization; l NAME; myopic defocus; N propyl l arginine; nitric oxide; NOS

Indexed keywords

N(G) METHYLARGININE; N(G) NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; N(G) PROPYLARGININE; NEURONAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHICK; CHOROID; CILIARY GANGLION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME INHIBITION; EYE REFRACTION; HYPERMETROPIA; MYOPIA; NONHUMAN; OPTICS; PARASYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCLERA;

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; CHOROID; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENZYME INHIBITORS; EYE; GLYCOSAMINOGLYCANS; ISOENZYMES; MYOPIA; NG-NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; SCLERA;

EID: 67349188125     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2009.01.012     Document Type: Article

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