Individual set-point and gain of emmetropization in chickens

Vision Research

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 57-64

  Tepelus, Tudor Cosmin ^a   Schaeffel, Frank ^a  

^a Institute for Ophthalmic Research   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chicken; Emmetropization; Gain; Refractive error; Set point

Indexed keywords

ACCOMMODATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHICK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENT; EMMETROPIZATION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; MALE; MYOPIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION ERROR; VITREOUS BODY;

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EMMETROPIA; MYOPIA; REFRACTION, OCULAR; REFRACTIVE ERRORS;

EID: 71549162543     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2009.10.006     Document Type: Article

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