Disruption of the mouse L1 gene leads to malformations of the nervous system

Nature Genetics

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 346-349

  Dahme, Miriam ^a   Bartsch, Udo ^a   Martini, Rudolf ^a,b   Anliker, Brigitte ^a   Schachner, Melitta ^a,c   Mantei, Ned ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL ADHESION MOLECULE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM AGENESIS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENE DISRUPTION; HYDROCEPHALUS; MOUSE; MYELINATION; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHWANN CELL; SPASTIC PARAPLEGIA;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AXONS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; CEREBELLAR CORTEX; CEREBRAL VENTRICLES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; LEUKOCYTE L1 ANTIGEN COMPLEX; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEURONS; SPINAL CORD;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030666794     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1197-346     Document Type: Article

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