A novel mutation vf causing abnormal vacuoles in the central nervous system maps on rat chromosome 8

Experimental Animals

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 149-155

  Nakane, Yoshifumi ^a   Adachi, Tamiko ^b   Voigt, Birger ^a   Yamasaki, Ken Ichi ^a   Kaji, Sumiko ^a   Inui, Toshihide ^b   Kitada, Kazuhiro ^a   Serikawa, Tadao ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MITSUBISHI TANABE PHARMA CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Body tremor; Genetic analysis; Neurological mutant; Vacuole formation; VF rat

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUGUST COPENHAGEN IRISH RAT; CELL VACUOLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHROMOSOME MAP; CROSS BREEDING; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; MUTATION; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; RAT STRAIN; TREMOR;

ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CROSSES, GENETIC; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MUTATION; RATS; RATS, INBRED ACI; RATS, MUTANT STRAINS; TREMOR; VACUOLES;

EID: 0036549811     PISSN: 13411357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1538/expanim.51.149     Document Type: Article

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