caa a22 4500 46577699X CHVBK 20180323111944.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170327e19900101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF02764314 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF02764314 Scleral change in experimentally myopic monkeys [Elektronische Daten] [Midori Funata, Takashi Tokoro] To elucidate changes in the sclera of myopic eyes free of other obvious pathological features, morphometric and ultrastructural studies on the posterior sclera at the foveola of the three lid-fused monkeys that had developed high myopia were performed. The myopic eyes showed increased axial length, and their scleral thickness was about half that of the control eyes. Furthermore, a gradual increase in the size of collagen bundles and fibrils from the inner to the outer layer of the sclera was observed in the control eyes, but was not evident in the myopic eyes. From the present study, it can be speculated that an alteration of fibrillogenesis in the sclera is a key feature of scleral thinning in lid-suture myopia, and that axial elongation of the eyeball results from a combination of altered fibrillogenesis and mechanical expansion. Springer-Verlag, 1990 Funata Midori Department of Ophthalmology, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, 5-45, Yushima 1-chome, Bunkyo-ku, 113, Tokyo, Japan aut Tokoro Takashi Department of Ophthalmology, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, 5-45, Yushima 1-chome, Bunkyo-ku, 113, Tokyo, Japan aut Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology Springer-Verlag 228/1(1990-01-01), 174-179 0721-832X 228:1<174 1990 228 417 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02764314 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02764314 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Funata Midori Department of Ophthalmology, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, 5-45, Yushima 1-chome, Bunkyo-ku, 113, Tokyo, Japan aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Tokoro Takashi Department of Ophthalmology, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, 5-45, Yushima 1-chome, Bunkyo-ku, 113, Tokyo, Japan aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology Springer-Verlag 228/1(1990-01-01), 174-179 0721-832X 228:1<174 1990 228 417 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence SWISSBIB 46577699X BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer