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Inbred wild type mouse strains have distinct spontaneous morphological phenotypes.
Histology and histopathology - 1 Jan 2013
Serpi R, Klein-Rodewald T, Calzada-Wack J, Neff F, Schuster T, Gailus-Durner V, Fuchs H, Poutanen M, Hrabrè de Angelis M, Esposito I
Abstract excerpt
The mouse is the most commonly used animal for modelling human disease. New approaches for generating genetically manipulated mouse models to represent human disease, as well as target the function of specific genes, has increased the importance of mice in biomedical science. For the correct interpretation of alterations in mouse phenotype the basic morphology of background mouse strains must be known. Despite...
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