Pre- and postnatal development of dopaminergic neuron numbers in the male and female mouse midbrain

Developmental Brain Research

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 37-43

  Lieb, Klaus ^a,b   Andersen, Claudia ^a   Lazarov, Nikolai ^a,c   Zienecker, Renate ^a   Urban, Ilse ^a   Pilgrim, Christof ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c Trakia University Medical College   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Immunocytochemistry; Morphometry; Sexual differentiation; Survival; Tyrosine hydroxylase

Indexed keywords

TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FETUS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; MORPHOMETRICS; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030583095     PISSN: 01653806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0165-3806(96)00063-6     Document Type: Article

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