Quaking*shiverer double-mutant mice survive for at least 100 days with no CNS myelin

Developmental Neuroscience

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 483-490

  Wolf, Merrill K ^a   Nunnari, John N ^a   Billings Gagliardi, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

CNS hypomyelination; Double mutant mice; Quaking; Shiverer

Indexed keywords

MYELIN; PROTEOLIPID PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMYELINATION; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; LIFESPAN; MOUSE; MUTANT; MYELINATION; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL TIME; WHITE MATTER; ANIMAL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENETICS; LONGEVITY; MORTALITY; MOUSE MUTANT; MYELIN SHEATH; MYELINATED NERVE; PATHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; SURVIVAL; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; GENOTYPE; LONGEVITY; MICE; MICE, NEUROLOGIC MUTANTS; MICE, QUAKING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MYELIN SHEATH; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; PHENOTYPE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033233221     PISSN: 03785866     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000017415     Document Type: Article

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