Eyes in various species can shorten to compensate for myopic defocus

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 2634-2644

  Zhu, Xiaoying ^a   McBrien III, Neville A ^b   Smith, Earl L ^c   Troilo, David ^d   Wallman, Josh ^a  

^a CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^d STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Chick; Emmetropization; Hyperopia; Marmoset; Myopia; Ocular length; Rhesus macaque; Tree shrew

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTERIOR EYE CHAMBER DEPTH; ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; CALLITRICHINAE; CHICK; CONTACT LENS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE AXIS LENGTH; EYE DISEASE; EYE SHORTENING; MONOCULAR DEPRIVATION; MYOPIC DEFOCUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; SHREW; SPECTACLES; VITREOUS BODY;

ANIMALS; BIOMETRY; CALLITHRIX; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EYE; EYEGLASSES; MACACA MULATTA; MYOPIA; REFRACTION, OCULAR; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; TUPAIIDAE; VISION, BINOCULAR;

EID: 84876091346     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.12-10514     Document Type: Article

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