Dark-rearing promotes drastic improvement of visual acuity in the amblyopic eye of lid-sutured kittens

This report extends findings (Duffy & Mitchell, 2013) of a dramatic recovery of vision in the deprived eye of amblyopic kittens following a short ‘dark-pulse’ (a 10 day period of darkness) to situations of clinical relevance. To this end, the initial deprivation began at post-natal day 7 rather...

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Main Author: MacNeill, Katelyn
Language:en
Published: 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10222/21665