The Reeler Mouse as a Model of Brain Development
Only five years ago, nobody in his right mind would have consid ered publishing a book on reeler as a model for brain develop ment. Although this interesting mutation has been with us for half a century, it is fair to say that, in spite of a wave of ent
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Vol. 150
Editors F. Beck, Melbourne D. Brown, Charlestown B. Christ, Freiburg W.-Kriz, Heidelberg E. Marani, Leiden R. Putz, Munchen Y. Sano, Kyoto T. H. Schiebler, Wurzburg K. Zilles, Dusseldorf
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c. Lambert de Rouvroit A. M. Goffinet
The Reeler Mouse asa Model of Brain Development
With 30 Figures and 3 Tables
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CATHERINE LAMBERT DE ROUVROIT, Ph.
D.
M. GOFFINET, M. D, PH. D. Neurobiology Unit University ofNamur Medical School 61, Rue de Bruxelles 5000 Namur Belgium ANDRE
ISBN-13:978-3-540-64674-7 Library of Congress-Cataloging-in-Publication-Data Lambert de Rouvroit, C. (Catherine), 1963- . The reeler mouse as a model of brain development / C. Lambert de Rouvroit and A.M. Goffinet. p. cm. (Advances in anatomy, embryology, and cellbiology, Vol. 150) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN -13:978-3-540-64674-7 e-ISBN -13:978-3-642-72257-8 DOl: 10.1007/978-3-642-72257-8 1. Developmental neurobiology. 2. Neurogenetics. 3. Mice-Molecular genetics. 4. Developmental genetics. I. Goffinet, A. II. Series QL801.E67 Vol. 150 [QP363.5] 571 s-dc21 573.8'61935] This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfIlms or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer-Verlag. Violations are liable for prosecution under the German Copyright Law. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1998
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Preface
Only five years ago, nobody in his right mind would have considered publishing a book on reeler as a model for brain development. Although this interesting mutation has been with us for half a century, it is fair to say that, in spite of a wave of enthusiasm in the late sixties and early seventies, generated primarily by Sidman, Caviness and colleagues, studies of reeler mice fell progressively out of fashion during the next two decades. All that changed almost overnight when the cloning of the reeler gene, dubbed reelin, was reported in Tom Curran's laboratory in 1995. The fact that the same gene was identifie
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