Sex-specific, postpuberty changes in mouse brain structures revealed by three-dimensional magnetic resonance microscopy

NeuroImage

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1636-1645

  Koshibu, Kyoko ^a   Levitt, Pat ^b   Ahrens, Eric T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Hippocampus; Lateral ventricles; Magnetic resonance microscopy; Mouse brain structures; MRI; Postpuberty; Sex characteristics; Sex hormones

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN VENTRICLE; CORPUS STRIATUM; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE MICROSCOPY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; SEX DIFFERENCE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MICE; MICROSCOPY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL MATURATION;

EID: 3242671794     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2004.03.051     Document Type: Article

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