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Retinal illumination with a fiber optic light source was also found to increase ChBF in the illuminated eye, and these effects too could be blocked reversibly with lidocaine injection into the EWM or permanently by the EWM lesion. Control studies confirmed that the light-elicited increases were mediated by increases in choroidal volume (i.e. vasodilation), were not accompanied by systemic blood pressure increases, and were not artifactually generated by transocular illumination of the LDF probe. 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