Phenotypic segregation of aphakia and Pitx3-null mutants reveals that Pitx3 deficiency increases consolidation of specific movement components

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 186, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 208-214

  Kas, Martien J H ^a   van der Linden, Annemarie J A ^a   Oppelaar, Hugo ^a   von Oerthel, Lars ^a   Ramakers, Geert M J ^a   Smidt, Marten P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Behavior; Dopamine; Mice; Parkinson's disease; Striatum

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PITX3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APHAKIA; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DIENCEPHALON; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; FEMALE; GENE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEGREGATION; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NEUROANATOMY; NIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NULL ALLELE; PHENOTYPE; PITX3 GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA COMPACTA;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; APHAKIA; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOPAMINE; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHENOTYPE; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 36248995866     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2007.08.032     Document Type: Article

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