Cerebellar Purkinje cell loss during life span of the heterozygous staggerer mouse (Rora+/Rora(sg)) is gender-related

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 411, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 267-273

  Doulazmi, Mohamed ^a   Frédéric, Florence ^a   Lemaigre Dubreuil, Yolande ^a   Hadj Sahraoui, Nadia ^a   Delhaye Bouchaud, Nicole ^a   Mariani, Jean ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Aging; Cerebellum; Mutant mice; Neuronal death

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGING; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HETEROZYGOSITY; LIFESPAN; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE CELL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

AGING; ANIMALS; CEREBELLAR CORTEX; CEREBELLUM; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; MALE; MICE; MICE, NEUROLOGIC MUTANTS; PURKINJE CELLS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0345593815     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19990823)411:2<267::AID-CNE7>3.0.CO;2-4     Document Type: Article

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