reeler
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Types of reelers
- Key pathological findings in the reeler brain structure
- Heterozygous reeler mouse
- History of research
- See also
- References
- External links
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A reeler is a mouse mutant, so named because of its characteristic "reeling" gait. This is caused by the profound underdevelopment of the mouse's cerebellum, a segment of the brain responsible for locomotion. The mutation is autosomal and recessive, and prevents the typical cerebellar folia from forming.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “reeler” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.