The results of many studies in a variety of species have significantly advanced our
understanding of the role of visual experience and the mechanisms of postnatal eye growth …

As the eye's main load-bearing connective tissue, the sclera is centrally important to vision.
In addition to cooperatively maintaining refractive status with the cornea, the sclera must …

Worldwide, myopia is the leading cause of visual impairment. It results from inappropriate
extension of the ocular axis and concomitant declines in scleral strength and thickness …

Purpose Despite extensive research, mechanisms regulating postnatal eye growth and
those responsible for ametropias are poorly understood. With the marked recent increases …

The global prevalence of myopia, or nearsightedness, has increased at an alarming rate
over the last few decades. An eye is myopic if incoming light focuses prior to reaching the …

Our current understanding of the development of refractive errors, in particular myopia,
would be substantially limited had Wiesel and Raviola not discovered by accident that …

In infant tree shrews, exposure to narrow-band long-wavelength (red) light, that stimulates
long-wavelength sensitive cones almost exclusively, slows axial elongation and produces …

Purpose: The development of myopia in guinea pigs can be inhibited by attenuating scleral
hypoxia by increasing choroidal blood perfusion (ChBP). In this study, we reduced ChBP …

Near infrared (NIR) light therapy, or photobiomodulation therapy (PBMT), has gained
persistent worldwide attention in recent years as a new novel scientific approach for …

Shortly after birth, the eyes of most animals (including humans) are hyperopic because the
short axial length places the retina in front of the focal plane. During postnatal development …