NIH Swiss and Black Swiss mice have retinal degeneration and performance deficits in cognitive tests

Comparative Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 310-316

  Clapcote, Steven J ^a   Lazar, Noah L ^b,d   Bechard, Allison R ^a   Wood, Geoffrey A ^a   Roder, John C ^c  

^a MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BLINDNESS; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PDE6B GENE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETINA DEGENERATION; RETINA IMAGE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, OUTBRED STRAINS; COGNITION; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HOMOZYGOTE; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MUTATION; PHOSPHORIC DIESTER HYDROLASES; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RETINA; RETINAL DEGENERATION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 33646016303     PISSN: 15320820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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