Phenotypic characterization of spontaneously mutated rats showing lethal dwarfism and epilepsy

Comparative Medicine

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 360-369

  Suzuki, Hiroetsu ^a   Takenaka, Motoo ^a   Suzuki, Katsushi ^a  

^a NIPPON VETERINARY AND LIFE SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CREATINE KINASE; CREATININE; GLUCOSE; GROWTH HORMONE; PHOSPHATE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; UREA; UREA NITROGEN;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN SIZE; BREEDING; CELL MATURATION; CELL VACUOLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVULSION; CREATININE CLEARANCE; DWARFISM; EPILEPSY; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GERM CELL; GRAND MAL EPILEPSY; GROWTH HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; GROWTH RETARDATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INBREEDING; INCIDENCE; LDE GENE; LEYDIG CELL; LIFESPAN; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; RAT; RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; SEIZURE; SPERMATOCYTE; SPONTANEOUS MUTATION; TESTIS WEIGHT; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL LAMENESS; DISEASE MODEL; FEMALE; GENETICS; LETHAL GENE; LONGEVITY; MALE; METABOLISM; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT STRAIN; RECESSIVE GENE; TESTIS; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DWARFISM; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; GENES, LETHAL; GENES, RECESSIVE; GROWTH HORMONE; HIPPOCAMPUS; INBREEDING; LAMENESS, ANIMAL; LONGEVITY; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PHENOTYPE; PITUITARY GLAND, ANTERIOR; RATS; RATS, MUTANT STRAINS; RATS, WISTAR; TESTIS;

EID: 34548843355     PISSN: 15320820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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