| Type | MGI:General | Description | individual olivary subnuclei are poorly defined relative to controls definition of subnuclei is better in 21 day old mice but regresses in adults olivary dendrites tend to be multipolar and well branched number of neurons drops 30% within 3 days of birth and continues to decline for 2 months number of neurons in adults is decreased 60% relative to newborns adult cell bodies are smaller than in newborns |
