Hippocampal morphology in the inbred mouse strains NZB and CBA/H and their reciprocal congenics for the nonpseudoautosomal region of the Y chromosome

Behavior Genetics

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-5

  Guillot, Pascale Valérie ^a   Sluyter, Frans ^a   Laghmouch, Abdelkader ^a   Roubertoux, Pierre L ^a   Crusio, Wim E ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

CBA H; congenic strains; hippocampus; Intermale aggression; mossy fibers; NZB BINJ; Y chromosome

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MOSSY FIBER; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; Y CHROMOSOME;

AGGRESSION; AGONISTIC BEHAVIOR; ANIMALS; GENOTYPE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED CBA; MICE, INBRED NZB; NERVE FIBERS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030033863     PISSN: 00018244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02361153     Document Type: Article

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