Survey of 21 inbred mouse strains in two laboratories reveals that BTBR T/+ tf/tf has severely reduced hippocampal commissure and absent corpus callosum

Brain Research

Volumn 971, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 47-54

  Wahlsten, Douglas ^a   Metten, Pamela ^b   Crabbe, John C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain weight; Complementation test; Inbred strain; Incomplete penetrance; Morphometry; Mouse Phenome Project

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN COMMISSURE; BRAIN MALFORMATION; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0037414416     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(03)02354-0     Document Type: Article

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