Water escape performance of adult RCS dystrophic and congenic rats: A functional and histomorphometric study

Brain Research

Volumn 717, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 165-172

  DiLoreto Jr , David ^a   Del Cerro, Manuel ^a   Reddy, Satya V ^a   Janardhan, Sujit ^a   Cox, Christopher ^a   Wyatt, Jeffrey ^b   Balkema, Grant W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c Department of Biology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

behavior; photoreceptor; RCS rat; retina; retinal degeneration; water maze

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; MAZE TEST; MORPHOMETRICS; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETINA DEGENERATION; SWIMMING;

EID: 0029878353     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(96)00095-9     Document Type: Article

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