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Inducement and Evaluation of a Murine Model of Experimental Myopia
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Cited by 9 •
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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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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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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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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Murine Ileal Resection Model: Studying Ileectomy-Induced Bile Metabolism in Murine Model
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2023
This video describes the detailed protocol for intestinal resection in a murine model. This technique provides insights into ileectomy-induced bile malabsorption, overaccumulation, and toxicity in the mouse intestine.
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Both conditions reduce the quality or focusing state of visual input, but they do so through different experimental manipulations. Form deprivation reduces retinal image quality, whereas a negative-power lens is placed before the eye to alter the optical signal. Comparing these approaches helps researchers examine whether distinct visual disturbances produce similar retinal signaling changes and axial elongation.
Reduced retinal image quality changes visual signaling associated with the eye’s growth regulation. In the model, this altered input is linked to axial elongation and a myopic refractive shift. The relationship allows investigators to study how visual experience is translated into structural changes in the eye rather than treating myopia as only an optical abnormality.
These tissues represent connected stages of the eye-growth response. Retinal signaling can influence changes involving the choroid and sclera, while scleral alterations are relevant to axial elongation. Examining the tissues together helps researchers investigate how local ocular mechanisms coordinate the structural changes associated with the refractive shift.
The model supports analysis of interactions between retinal signals and brain pathways involved in visual regulation. This makes it useful for asking how visual experience affects neural function while also influencing ocular growth. Researchers can therefore connect tissue-level mechanisms in the eye with broader neural processes that shape visual responses and regulation.
Researchers induce the condition by changing the visual input reaching one or both eyes through form deprivation or by placing a negative-power lens before the eye. The selected manipulation produces an altered visual experience that can then be related to eye growth, refractive changes, and neural effects. These two approaches provide complementary experimental routes.
The model enables evaluation of axial elongation, myopic refractive shifts, molecular mechanisms, and changes in neural function. Investigators can also examine how the retina, choroid, sclera, and brain pathways participate in visual regulation. Together, these outcomes provide a framework for connecting altered visual experience with structural, molecular, and neural consequences.
Because visual conditions can be experimentally altered, the system provides a controlled way to investigate how environmental influences affect myopia-related responses. Researchers can also evaluate potential treatments by examining whether they modify the associated molecular mechanisms, eye-growth changes, refractive shift, or neural function. Its value lies in linking intervention effects to several levels of visual regulation.