Sex and species differences in mouse and rat forebrain commissures depend on the method of adjusting for brain size

Brain Research

Volumn 815, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 358-366

  Bishop, Katherine M ^a   Wahlsten, Douglas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Allometry; Anterior commissure; Cerebral cortex; Corpus callosum; Hippocampal commissure; Morphometry

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN COMMISSURE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN WEIGHT; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; FOREBRAIN; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MORPHOMETRICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BODY CONSTITUTION; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CROSSES, GENETIC; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED DBA; ORGAN SIZE; PROSENCEPHALON; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0033537281     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(98)01088-9     Document Type: Article

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