Formation of functional areas in the cerebral cortex is disrupted in a mouse model of autism spectrum disorder

Neural Development

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Fenlon, Laura R ^a   Liu, Sha ^a   Gobius, Ilan ^a   Kurniawan, Nyoman D ^a   Murphy, Skyle ^a   Moldrich, Randal X ^a,b   Richards, Linda J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Agenesis of the corpus callosum; Autism spectrum disorders (ASD); BTBR mice; Cortical area patterning; Diffusion imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR COMMISSURE; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM AGENESIS; CORTICAL THICKNESS (BRAIN); DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STRIATE CORTEX; TRACTOGRAPHY; AGING; ANIMAL; BRAIN FORNIX; C57BL MOUSE; DISEASE MODEL; GENETICS; INBRED MOUSE STRAIN; MOUSE MUTANT; PATHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; VISUAL CORTEX;

AGENESIS OF CORPUS CALLOSUM; AGING; ANIMALS; ANTERIOR CEREBELLAR COMMISSURE; AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FORNIX, BRAIN; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MICE, NEUROLOGIC MUTANTS; PHENOTYPE; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 85048081151     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17498104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13064-015-0033-y     Document Type: Article

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