Mice lacking Wnt2b are viable and display a postnatal olfactory bulb phenotype

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 512, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 48-52

  Tsukiyama, Tadasuke ^a,b   Yamaguchi, Terry P ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain; Embryogenesis; Olfactory bulb; Redundancy; Wnt

Indexed keywords

UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT2 PROTEIN; WNT2B PROTEIN;

ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GASTRULATION; LIFESPAN; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY BULB; ORGANOGENESIS; PERINATAL PERIOD; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; OLFACTORY BULB; PHENOTYPE; WNT PROTEINS;

EID: 84857999658     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2012.01.062     Document Type: Article

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