Visual regulation of refractive development: Insights from animal studies

Eye (Basingstoke)

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 180-188

  Smith III, E L ^a,b   Hung, L F ^a,b   Arumugam, B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b VISION COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

defocus; emmetropization; hyperopia; myopia

Indexed keywords

ACCOMMODATION; ANISOMETROPIA; ARTICLE; ASTIGMATISM; CONTACT LENS; EMMETROPIA; EYE DEVELOPMENT; EYE REFRACTION; GROWTH RATE; HAPLORHINI; HUMAN; HYPERMETROPIA; LASER SURGERY; LENS; MYOPIA; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL DISK; PERIPHERAL VISION; PRIMATE; REFRACTION ERROR; RETINA; RETINA FOVEA; RISK FACTOR; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FEEDBACK; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION; VITREOUS BODY;

ANIMALS; AXIAL LENGTH, EYE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EMMETROPIA; EYE; HUMANS; MYOPIA; VISION, OCULAR;

EID: 84894118719     PISSN: 0950222X     EISSN: 14765454     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/eye.2013.277     Document Type: Article

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