Dendritic spine abnormalities in the occipital cortex of C57BL/6 Fmr1 knockout mice

American Journal of Medical Genetics - Neuropsychiatric Genetics

Volumn 136 B, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 98-102

  McKinney, Brandon C ^a,b   Grossman, Aaron W ^a   Elisseou, Nicholas M ^a,c   Greenough, William T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Background strain differences; Golgi; Knockout mice; Mental retardation

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CELL SIZE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC SPINE; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; GENE MUTATION; GOLGI COMPLEX; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MALE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MOUSE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; DENDRITES; DENDRITIC SPINES; FEMALE; FRAGILE X MENTAL RETARDATION PROTEIN; GENOTYPE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; OCCIPITAL LOBE; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 21444456944     PISSN: 15524841     EISSN: 1552485X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.b.30183     Document Type: Article

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