Morphological brain asymmetries in male mice with callosal defects due to prenatal gamma irradiation

International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 67-77

  Caparelli Dáquer, Egas M ^a   Schmidt, Sergio L ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CORPUS CALLOSUM AGENESIS; GAMMA IRRADIATION; HEMISPHERE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FETUS; GAMMA RAYS; MALE; MICE; MORPHOGENESIS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RADIATION INJURIES, EXPERIMENTAL;

EID: 0345003687     PISSN: 07365748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0736-5748(98)00060-4     Document Type: Article

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