Investigating mechanisms of myopia in mice

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 114, Issue , 2013, Pages 96-105

  Pardue, Machelle T ^a,b   Stone, Richard A ^c   Iuvone, P Michael ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ATLANTA VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Axial length; C d; D; Egr 1; Emmetropia; Form deprivation; LCI; Mfrp; Mouse; MRI; Myopia; OCT; QTL; Refractive development; SD OCT; WT

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; BODY WEIGHT; EYE; GENETIC MODEL; LENS; MOUSE STRAIN; MYOPIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION ERROR; RETINA GANGLION CELL;

AXIAL LENGTH; C/D; CYCLES PER DEGREE; D; DIOPTER; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE PROTEIN; EGR-1; EMMETROPIA; FORM DEPRIVATION; LCI; LOW COHERENCE INTERFEROMETER; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEMBRANE FRIZZLED RESPONSE PROTEIN; MFRP; MOUSE; MRI; MYOPIA; OCT; OPTICAL COHERENCE INTERFEROMETRY; QTL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; REFRACTIVE DEVELOPMENT; SD-OCT; SPECTRAL DOMAIN-OPTICAL COHERENCE INTERFEROMETRY; WILD TYPE; WT;

ANIMALS; AXIAL LENGTH, EYE; BIOMETRY; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EYE; MICE; MYOPIA; REFRACTION, OCULAR; VISION, OCULAR;

EID: 84881313142     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: 10960007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2012.12.014     Document Type: Article

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