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Aberrant Synaptic Development in Mutant “Weaver” Mice

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Nervous System

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The cerebellum of the weaver mouse is abnormally small and is about one-fourth the size of the cerebellum in the normal littermates (Sidman et al. 1965).

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  1. Asao Hirano
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  2. Masayuki Shintaku
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  1. New England Regional Primate Research Center, Harvard Medical School, One Pine Hill Drive, Southborough, MA, 01772, USA

    Thomas Carlyle Jones D.V.M., D.Sc. (Professor of Comparative Pathology, Emeritus) & Ronald Duncan Hunt D.V.M. (Professor of Comparative Pathology) (Professor of Comparative Pathology, Emeritus) &  (Professor of Comparative Pathology)

  2. Institut für Experimentelle Pathologie, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Konstanty-Gutschow-Strasse 8, 3000, Hannover 61, Federal Republic of Germany

    Ulrich Mohr M.D. (Professor of Experimental Pathology) (Professor of Experimental Pathology)

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Hirano, A., Shintaku, M. (1988). Aberrant Synaptic Development in Mutant “Weaver” Mice. In: Jones, T.C., Mohr, U., Hunt, R.D. (eds) Nervous System. Monographs on Pathology of Laboratory Animals. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-83516-2_37

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