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Quantitative genetic analysis of ventral midbrain and liver iron in BXD recombinant inbred mice.
Nutritional neuroscience - 1 Dec 2003
Jones Byron C, Reed Cheryl L, Hitzemann Robert, Wiesinger Jason A, McCarthy Kristin A, Buwen James P, Beard John L
Abstract excerpt
Male and female mice from 15 of the BXD/Ty recombinant inbred strain panel were examined for regional brain and liver iron content. Brain regions included medial prefrontal cortex, nucleus accumbens, caudate-putamen and ventral midbrain. Our focal tissue was the ventral midbrain, containing the ventral tegmentum and substantia nigra. This area contains the perikarya of the dopamine neurons that project to nucleus...
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