Lens-induced Myopia
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Developing Myopia in a Mouse Model Through Lens-Induced Defocusing
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2025
Source: Jiang, X., et al. Inducement and evaluation of a murine model of experimental myopia. J. Vis. Exp. (2019)This video demonstrates a procedure for inducing myopia in a mouse through the installation of a custom lens frame. The frame is secured to the exposed skull with dental adhesive, and concave lenses are inserted to shift the focal point behind the retina. This setup stimulates eyeball elongation leading to myopia.
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Inducement and Evaluation of a Murine Model of Experimental Myopia
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2019
In this protocol, we describe the full process of experimental myopia inducement in mice using newly designed eyeglasses and the technic needed for achieving stable and reproducible results in ocular parameter measurements.
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Scleral Cross-linking Using Riboflavin and Ultraviolet-A Radiation for Prevention of Axial Myopia in a Rabbit Model
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2016
We demonstrate the effect of scleral crosslinking with riboflavin and UVA on an axial elongation rabbit eye. Axial elongation was induced in 13 day-old New Zealand rabbits (male and female) by suturing their right eye eyelids (tarsorrhaphy).
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Eye Lens Dissection: A Technique to Observe Zebrafish Lens Morphology
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2023
This video describes the protocol which is developed to dissect adult and larval zebrafish lenses to analyze cortical lens morphology and structural integrity of the lens sutures.
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Marketing Myopia
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2024
Marketing myopia is a concept that highlights the shortsightedness of businesses when they focus too narrowly on their products or services rather than understanding and addressing the broader needs and wants of their customers. This myopic view can lead to a failure to recognize changes in consumer preferences and market dynamics, ultimately hindering long-term success. In order to avoid marketing myopia, businesses should adopt a customer-centric approach, continually adapt to evolving...
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The negative-powered lens shifts the image focus behind the retina, creating sustained blur during visual development. This altered retinal experience activates signaling pathways that influence the sclera, the eye’s outer structural tissue. The resulting remodeling changes ocular dimensions, allowing researchers to connect abnormal visual input with growth-related changes in refractive development.
Scleral remodeling provides a structural link between visual signaling and refractive change. As the sclera responds to sustained retinal-image blur, the eye can increase its axial length, meaning the distance from the front of the eye to the retina becomes greater. Measuring this relationship helps investigators study how tissue growth contributes to myopic progression.
The model allows researchers to examine how visual information and image quality influence biological responses beyond the retina. By linking retinal-image blur with changes in ocular growth, it provides a framework for investigating retina-to-brain communication and the signaling processes associated with refractive development. This is especially relevant to neuroscience studies of sensory regulation and adaptation.
Emmetropization refers to the developmental regulation of eye growth toward an appropriate refractive state. Lens-induced myopia challenges that regulation by introducing persistent image blur during development. Studying the resulting refractive shift helps researchers identify how visual experience can alter normal growth control and provides an experimental context for examining mechanisms that guide refractive development.
Investigators place a negative-powered lens in front of an eye to alter where the retinal image forms. The lens produces sustained blur by shifting the image behind the retina, after which researchers examine changes in ocular growth and refraction. This controlled manipulation makes it possible to relate a defined visual disturbance to subsequent biological outcomes.
The model supports evaluation of refractive change, axial length, and alterations associated with scleral remodeling. Together, these outcomes show how visual experience affects the developing eye rather than merely recording a change in visual focus. Comparing these measures can help investigators assess the relationship between retinal signaling, eye growth, and myopic progression.
Because the model begins with a controlled alteration of visual experience, it provides a framework for examining factors that may modify myopia progression. Researchers can use it to evaluate how environmental influences or potential interventions affect retinal signaling, ocular growth, scleral remodeling, or refractive outcomes. Its value lies in connecting these influences to measurable developmental changes.