Morphological changes in the trigemino-rubral pathway in dystrophic (mdx) mice

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 416, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 175-179

  Pinto, Magali Luci ^a   Tokunaga, Heloisa Helena Vieira Olyntho ^a   Souccar, Caden ^a   Schoorlemmer, Guus H M ^a   Lapa, Rita de Cássia Ribeiro da Silva ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Duchenne muscle disease; Dystrophin; Fluorogold; mdx mouse; Red nucleus; Trigeminal sensory nuclear complex

Indexed keywords

DYSTROPHIN; FLUORESCEIN; FLUOROGOLD; RHODAMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; MESENCEPHALON; MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; RED NUCLEUS; TRIGEMINAL NUCLEUS; X CHROMOSOME LINKED MUSCULAR DYSTROPHIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED MDX; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY, DUCHENNE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; RED NUCLEUS; TRIGEMINAL CAUDAL NUCLEUS;

EID: 33947249444     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2007.02.004     Document Type: Article

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