Hereditary visual impairment in a new mutant strain of chicken, GSN/1

Acta Neuropathologica

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 137-144

  Shibuya, Kazumoto ^a   Yamazaki, Hiroko ^b   Mizutani, Makoto ^a   Nunoya, Tetsuo ^a   Tajima, Masanori ^a   Satou, Takeshi ^b  

^a NIPPON INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chicken; Electroretinogram; Histopathology; Visual evoked potential; Visual impairment; Visual pathway

Indexed keywords

XENON;

A WAVE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; B WAVE; CELL COUNT; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; EYE FUNDUS; FEMALE; GENETIC DISORDER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HYPOPLASIA; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MUTANT; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; OPHTHALMOLOGY; OPTIC NERVE FIBER; OPTIC TECTUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA DISEASE; RETINA GANGLION CELL; SCORING SYSTEM; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; TYPE STRAIN; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUTATION; VISION DISORDERS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0036934953     PISSN: 00016322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004010100442     Document Type: Article

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