Behavioural visual acuity of wild type and bcl2 transgenic mouse

Vision Research

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 569-574

  Gianfranceschi, Laura ^a,b   Fiorentini, Adriana ^b   Maffei, Lamberto ^a,b  

^a SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE   (Italy)

^b Ist Neurofisiol Cons Naz D   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bcl2 gene; Behavioural task; Mouse; Transgenic; Visual acuity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CELL DEATH; CELL DENSITY; CELL PROTECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC MANIPULATION; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL ILLUSION;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENES, BCL-2; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; RATS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0345251969     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(98)00169-2     Document Type: Article

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