Article
Genetically determined variation in the azygos vein in the mouse.
Teratology - 1 Dec 1991
Biddle F G, Jung J D, Eales B A
Abstract excerpt
The normal mouse is expected to have a single and left-sided azygos vein that develops from the paired embryonic cardinal venous system and drains most of the right and left thoracic walls into the left anterior vena cava. During routine autopsies of adult mice, most individuals of the C57BL/6J strain were found to have this pattern but a distribution of different azygos venous patterns was found in the WB/ReJ...
Topics
- Animals
- Azygos Vein
- Gene Frequency
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Inbred Strains
- Phenotype