Atrophy and loss of dopaminergic mesencephalic neurons in heterozygous weaver mice

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 5-12

  Verina, Tatyana ^a   Norton, James A ^a,b   Sorbel, Jeffrey J ^b   Triarhou, Lazaros C ^a   Laferty, Donald ^c   Richter, Judith A ^a,b   Simon, Jay R ^a,b   Ghetti, Bernardino ^a,b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Leica Microsystems Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell count; Heterozygous weaver mice; Midbrain dopamine neurons; Striatum; TH immunochemistry

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN NUCLEUS; CELL LOSS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; MOUSE; NERVE CELL LESION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIC CELL; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; ATROPHY; CELL COUNT; DOPAMINE; FEMALE; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; HETEROZYGOTE; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; MICE; MICE, NEUROLOGIC MUTANTS; NEURONS; POINT MUTATION;

EID: 0031015390     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02454137     Document Type: Article

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