The effects of spectacle wear in infancy on eye growth and refractive error in the marmoset (Callithrix jacchus)
The effects of spectacle wear in infancy on eye growth and refractive error in the marmoset (Callithrix jacchus)
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DOI:
10.1016/s0042-6989(98)00189-8
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发表时间:
1999-01-01
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1.8
通讯作者:
Judge, SJ
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作者:
Graham, B;Judge, SJ
We made a comprehensive study, involving observations on 45 marmosets, of the effects on ocular growth and refraction of wearing spectacles from the ages of 4-8 weeks. This period was within the period early in life when the eye grows rapidly and refraction changes from hyperopia to its adult value of modest myopia. In one series of experiments we studied the effect of lenses of powers - 8, - 4, + 4 and + 8D fitted monocularly. In another series of experiments we studied the effect of lenses of equal and opposite powers fitted binocularly, with the two eyes alternately occluded, so as to give an incentive to use both eyes, and in particular to accommodate, for at least part of each day, through the negative lens. The vitreous chamber of eyes that wore negative lenses of - 4D or - 8D, combined with alternate occlusion, elongated more rapidly than that of the fellow eye (negative lens eye-positive lens eye, 0.21 +/- 0.03 mm (S.E.M.), P < 0.01 and 0.25 +/- 0.06 mm, P < 0.05, respectively) and became relatively more myopic (2.8 +/- 0.26D, P < 0.01 and 2.4 +/- 0.61D, P < 0.05 respectively). Eyes that wore - 4D lenses monocularly elongated more rapidly and became myopic than fellow eyes. Eyes that wore + 4D or + XD lenses were less strongly affected: animals that wore + go lenses monocularly (without alternate occlusion) developed a slight relative hyperopia (0.99 +/- 0.21D, P