Parasympathetic influences on emmetropization in chicks: Evidence for different mechanisms in form deprivation vs negative lens-induced myopia

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 102, Issue , 2012, Pages 93-103

  Nickla, Debora L ^a   Schroedl, Falk ^b  

^a NEW ENGLAND COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY   (United States)

^b PARACELSUS MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Choroid; Ciliary ganglion; Form deprivation; Myopic defocus; Parasympathectomy; Pterygopalatine ganglia

Indexed keywords

A SCAN; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CHICK; CHOLINERGIC TRANSMISSION; CHOROID; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FORM DEPRIVATION MYOPIA; GROWTH RATE; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MYOPIA; NEGATIVE LENS INDUCED MYOPIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION ERROR; REFRACTOMETER; SUPERIOR CERVICAL GANGLIONECTOMY;

ANIMALS; AXIAL LENGTH, EYE; CHICKENS; CHOROID; CONTACT LENSES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EMMETROPIA; EYE; FORM PERCEPTION; GANGLIA, PARASYMPATHETIC; GANGLIONECTOMY; HYPERTROPHY; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MYOPIA; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SUPERIOR CERVICAL GANGLION;

EID: 84865595385     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: 10960007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2012.07.002     Document Type: Article

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