In vitro evidence that the reduction in mesencepalic dopaminergic neurons in the weaver heterozygote is not due to a failure in target cell interaction

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 174-179

  Won, Lisa ^a   Ghetti, Bernardino ^b   Heller, Barbara ^c   Heller, Alfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dopamine; Gene action; Mouse; Tissue culture; Weaver

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL INTERACTION; CELL STRUCTURE; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; EMBRYO; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; MESENCEPHALON; MOUSE; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NIGRONEOSTRIATAL SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TARGET CELL; TISSUE CULTURE;

ANIMALS; DOPAMINE; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MESENCEPHALON; MICE; MICE, NEUROLOGIC MUTANTS; NEOSTRIATUM; NEURONS; PREGNANCY; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 0030992745     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00005679     Document Type: Article

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