Sex differences in protein expression in the mouse brain and their perturbations in a model of Down syndrome

Biology of Sex Differences

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Block, Aaron ^a   Mahiuddin Ahmed, Md ^a   Ranjitha Dhanasekaran, A ^a   Tong, Suhong ^b   Gardiner, Katheleen J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Food Science and Human Nutrition   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebellum; Dp(10)1Yey; Hippocampus; Intellectual disability; Learning; Memory deficits; Mouse chromosome 10; S100B; Trisomy 21; TRPM2

Indexed keywords

EID: 84946429843     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20426410     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13293-015-0043-9     Document Type: Article

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