Dense cataract and microphthalmia - New spontaneous mutation in BALB/c mice

Comparative Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 275-279

  Kohale, Kalidas ^a   Ingle, Arvind ^b   Kelkar, Asha ^c   Parab, Pradeep ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTRE FOR CELL SCIENCE   (India)

^b TATA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (India)

^c Kelkar Nursing Home   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; CONGENITAL CATARACT; CORNEA; DCM GENE; FEMALE; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CROSS; INHERITANCE; IRIS; MALE; MICROPHTHALMIA; MOUSE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROGENY; PUPIL; RETINA; SLIT LAMP;

ANIMALS; CATARACT; CROSSES, GENETIC; FEMALE; INBREEDING; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICROPHTHALMOS; MUTATION;

EID: 3042696951     PISSN: 15320820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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