Phenotypic effects of the weaver gene are evident in the embryonic cerebellum but not in the ventral midbrain

Developmental Brain Research

Volumn 96, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 130-137

  Bayer, Shirley A ^a   Wills, Katherine V ^a   Wei, Jianjun ^b   Feng, Yue ^b   Dlouhy, Stephen R ^b   Hodes, Marion E ^b   Verina, Tatyana ^b   Ghetti, Bernardino ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

cerebellar development; dopamine; tyrosine hydroxylase immunocytochemistry; weaver mutant mouse; 3H thymidine autoradiography

Indexed keywords

TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SYNTHESIS; EMBRYO; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MOUSE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030599432     PISSN: 01653806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0165-3806(96)00107-1     Document Type: Article

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