Genetic analysis of barrel field size in the first somatosensory area (SI) in inbred and recombinant inbred strains of mice

Somatosensory and Motor Research

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 141-150

  Li, Cheng X ^a   Wei, Xin ^a   Lu, Lu ^a   Peirce, Jeremy L ^a   Williams, Robert W ^a   Waters, Robert S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

BXD; C57BL 6J; Cortex; DBA 2J; PMBSF; Whisker barrels

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE;

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN WEIGHT; CHEMICAL LABELING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOARCHITECTURE; FACE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HAIR; HERITABILITY; INBRED STRAIN; MEASUREMENT; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; NEOCORTEX; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE GENETICS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; VIBRISSA;

AGING; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; ORGAN SIZE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 28844433716     PISSN: 08990220     EISSN: 13691651     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08990220500262182     Document Type: Article

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