Neuroanatomical phenotypes in a mouse model of the 22q11.2 microdeletion

Molecular Psychiatry

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 99-107

  Ellegood, J ^a   Markx, S ^b   Lerch, J P ^a,c   Steadman, P E ^a,c   Genc C ^d   Provenzano, F ^b   Kushner, S A ^d   Henkelman, R M ^a,c   Karayiorgou, M ^b   Gogos, J A ^b  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

22q11.2; microdeletion; mouse model; MRI; schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; CEREBELLUM; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; CEREBELLUM NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOME MICRODELETION 22Q11.2; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CORPUS STRIATUM; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC RISK; HUMAN; LIMBIC CORTEX; MOUSE; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CHROMOSOME DELETION; DIGEORGE SYNDROME; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PHENOTYPE; THIRD VENTRICLE;

EID: 84891166667     PISSN: 13594184     EISSN: 14765578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/mp.2013.112     Document Type: Article

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