Article
The dysmyelinating mouse mutations shiverer (shi) and myelin deficient (shimld).
Behavior genetics - 1 Mar 1990
Readhead C, Hood L
Abstract excerpt
Shiverer (shi/shi) is an autosomal recessive mouse mutation that produces a shivering phenotype in affected mice. A shivering gait can be seen from a few weeks after birth until their early death, which occurs between 50 and 100 days. The central nervous system of the mutant mouse is hypomyelinat...
Topics
- Animals
- Demyelinating Diseases
- Mice
- Mice, Jimpy
- Mice, Neurologic Mutants
- Mice, Transgenic
- Mutation
- Myelin Basic Protein
- Myelin Proteins
- Myelin Sheath