Sexually dimorphic responses to neonatal basal forebrain lesions in mice: II. Cortical morphology

Journal of Neurobiology

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 595-606

  Hohmann, Christine F ^a   Berger Sweeney, Joanne ^b  

^a MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WELLESLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cholinergic; Cytoarchitecture; Neocortex; Sexual dimorphism

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN INJURY; CHOLINERGIC NERVE; FOREBRAIN; MOUSE; NEOCORTEX; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ACETYLCHOLINE; AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHOLINERGIC FIBERS; ELECTRODES; FEMALE; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MORPHOGENESIS; NEOCORTEX; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PROSENCEPHALON; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 0031767298     PISSN: 00223034     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4695(199812)37:4<595::AID-NEU8>3.0.CO;2-T     Document Type: Article

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