Triangulating the sexually dimorphic brain through high-resolution neuroimaging of murine sex chromosome aneuploidies

Brain Structure and Function

Volumn 220, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 3581-3593

  Raznahan, Armin ^a   Lue, YanHe ^b   Probst, Frank ^c   Greenstein, Deanna ^a   Giedd, Jay ^a   Wang, Christina ^b   Lerch, Jason ^d   Swerdloff, Ronald ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Brain anatomy; Sexual dimorphism; XO; XXY

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN SIZE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; KARYOTYPE 45,X; KARYOTYPE 46,XX; KARYOTYPE 46,XY; KARYOTYPE 47,XXY; LATERAL HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; MEDIAL AMYGDALA; MONOSOMY; MOUSE; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY NUCLEUS; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; PONS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM; SEX CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STRIA TERMINALIS; SUBSTANTIA INNOMINATA; THALAMUS; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; AMYGDALA; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANEUPLOIDY; ANIMAL; BRAIN; C57BL MOUSE; KARYOTYPING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROCEDURES; SEPTUM NUCLEUS; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

AMYGDALA; ANEUPLOIDY; ANIMALS; BRAIN; FEMALE; KARYOTYPING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEUROIMAGING; SEPTAL NUCLEI; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX CHROMOSOMES;

EID: 84942313058     PISSN: 18632653     EISSN: 18632661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00429-014-0875-9     Document Type: Article

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