Mice homozygous for a modified β-amyloid precursor protein (βAPP) gene show impaired behavior and high incidence of agenesis of the corpus callosum

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 777, Issue , 1996, Pages 65-73

  Muller U ^a   Cristina, N ^a   Li, Z W ^a   Wolfer, D P Y ^a   Lipp, H P ^a   Rulicke T ^b   Brandner, S ^c   Aguzzi, A ^c   Weissman, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN; RNA;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM AGENESIS; EXON; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; LEARNING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; RNA SPLICING;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0029996067     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1996.tb34402.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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