Increased axon number in the anterior commissure of mice lacking a corpus callosum

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 146, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 491-501

  Livy, D J ^a   Schalomon, P M ^a   Roy, M ^a   Zacharias, M C ^b   Pimenta, J ^b   Lent, R ^b   Wahlsten, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR COMMISSURE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CELL DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; HEMISPHERE; MOUSE; MYELINATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE FIBER; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRIFORM CORTEX;

EID: 0031214876     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exnr.1997.6564     Document Type: Article

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