Degeneration of pontine mossy fibres during cerebellar development in weaver mutant mice

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 565-574

  Ozaki, Miwako ^a   Hashikawa, Tsutomu ^a   Ikeda, Kazutaka ^a   Miyakawa, Yukie ^a   Ichikawa, Tomio ^b   Ishihara, Yoshihiro ^c   Kumanishi, Toshiro ^b   Yano, Ryoji ^a  

^a RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cerebellum; GIRK2; Lobule formation; Pontine nuclei

Indexed keywords

DYE; TRACER;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN NUCLEUS; CELL COUNT; CEREBELLUM; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; HISTOLOGY; MOSSY FIBER; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; MUTANT; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PONS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CELL COUNT; CEREBELLUM; G PROTEIN-COUPLED INWARDLY-RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNELS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, NEUROLOGIC MUTANTS; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE FIBERS; PONS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, INWARDLY RECTIFYING;

EID: 18744387682     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2002.02111.x     Document Type: Article

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