The effect of ambient illuminance on the development of deprivation myopia in chicks.

The effect of ambient illuminance on the development of deprivation myopia in chicks.

Ashby R, Ohlendorf A, Schaeffel F.

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Institute for Ophthalmic Research, Section of Neurobiology of the Eye, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2009 
Nov;50(11):5348-54

"Exposing chicks to high illuminances, either sunlight or intense laboratory lights, retards the development of experimental myopia. These results, in conjunction with recent epidemiologic findings, suggest that daily exposure to high light levels may have a protective effect against the development of school-age myopia in children."

Abstract: 

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19516016