EFFECT OF DARK-REARING ON EXPERIMENTAL MYOPIA IN MONKEYS

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  • 1 January 1978
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 17  (6) , 485-488
Abstract
When lids are surgically fused in rhesus monkeys [Macaca mulatta] before eye growth is completed, a high degree of myopia develops, caused by an elongation of the eye globe. In monkeys raised in the dark after monocular lid fusion, refraction and axial length were normal in the closed and open eye. Myopia readily developed and the eye elongated when a monkey raised in the dark was transferred to illuminated quarters. Apparently visual stimulation through the translucent lids was necessary for the development of this experimental ametropia.

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