Dependency between light intensity and refractive development under light-dark cycles

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 40-46

  Cohen, Yuval ^a   Belkin, Michael ^a   Yehezkel, Oren ^a   Solomon, Arieh S ^a   Polat, Uri ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Ambient light; Emmetropization; Hyperopia; Light intensity; Myopia

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTERIOR EYE CHAMBER; ARTICLE; CHICK; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA CURVATURE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EMMETROPIA; EYE AXIS LENGTH; EYE REFRACTION; HYPERMETROPIA; KERATOMETRY; LENS; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; LIGHT INTENSITY; MALE; MYOPIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION INDEX; RETINOSCOPY; ULTRASOUND; VITREOUS BODY;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANTERIOR CHAMBER; CHICKENS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CORNEA; EMMETROPIA; HYPEROPIA; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; LIGHT; MALE; MYOPIA; PHOTOPERIOD; REFRACTION, OCULAR; RETINOSCOPY; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 78650575504     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2010.10.012     Document Type: Article

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