Age dependent forebrain structural changes in mice deficient in the autism associated gene MET tyrosine kinase

NeuroImage: Clinical

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 66-74

  Smith, Jacob M ^a   Xu, Jennifer ^b   Powell, Elizabeth M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Autism; Corpus callosum; Frontal cortex; Met tyrosine kinase; Mouse; MRI

Indexed keywords

SCATTER FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DENDRITE; FOREBRAIN; HIPPOCAMPUS; MOUSE; NERVE CELL GROWTH; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TELENCEPHALON; THALAMUS;

EID: 84871944400     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22131582     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2012.09.002     Document Type: Article

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