Variation in the cortical area map of C57BL/6J and DBA/2J inbred mice predicts strain identity

BMC Neuroscience

Volumn 6, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Airey, David C ^a   Robbins, Alicia I ^b   Enzinger, Katherine M ^b   Wu, Fangbai ^b   Collins, Christine E ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ACCURACY; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN SIZE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEMISPHERE; MITOGENESIS; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NEOCORTEX; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; VISUAL CORTEX; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DBA MOUSE; HISTOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED DBA; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 23044443381     PISSN: 14712202     EISSN: 14712202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-6-18     Document Type: Article

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