Article
Development of a strain of rabbits with congenital simple nonsyndromic coronal suture synostosis. Part I: Breeding demographics, inheritance pattern, and craniofacial anomalies.
The Cleft palate-craniofacial journal : official publication of the American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association - 1 Jan 1994
Mooney M P, Losken H W, Siegel M I, Lalikos J F, Losken A, Smith T D, Burrows A M
Abstract excerpt
The lack of an animal model of congenital coronal suture (CS) synostosis has prompted the widespread use of an experimental rabbit model using adhesive immobilization of the CS. Such postnatal models have helped make significant scientific contributions but may still not fully represent all aspec...
Topics
- Animals
- Craniosynostoses
- Disease Models, Animal
- Facial Asymmetry
- Facial Bones
- Female
- Frontal Bone
- Genes, Dominant
- Inbreeding
- Male
- Malocclusion
- Mutation
- Occipital Bone
- Parietal Bone