Myopia: why the retina stops inhibiting eye growth

Abstract In myopia, the eye grows too long, and the image projected on the retina is poorly focused when subjects look at a distance. While the retina normally controls eye growth by visual processing, it seems to give up during myopia development. But what has changed? To determine whether the shar...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Barbara Swiatczak, Frank Schaeffel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-12-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-26323-7