Sex, eye size, and the rate of myopic eye growth due to form deprivation in outbred White Leghorn chickens

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 651-657

  Chen, Yen Po ^a,b   Prashar, Ankush ^a   Hocking, Paul M ^c   Erichsen, Jonathan T ^a   To, Chi Ho ^d   Schaeffel, Frank ^e   Guggenheim, Jeremy A ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^e Institute for Ophthalmic Research   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A SCAN; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DNA DETERMINATION; EYE DIMENSION; EYE GROWTH; FEMALE; FORM DEPRIVATION MYOPIA; GENDER IDENTITY; GROWTH RATE; MALE; MYOPIA; NONHUMAN; ORGAN GROWTH; ORGAN SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION ERROR; RETINOSCOPY; SEX DIFFERENCE; ANIMAL; DISEASE MODEL; EYE; GENDER AND SEX; LIGHT; PATHOLOGY; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; VITREOUS BODY;

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EYE; FEMALE; LIGHT; MALE; MYOPIA; RETINOSCOPY; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); SEX FACTORS; VITREOUS BODY;

EID: 77449140874     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.09-3826     Document Type: Article

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