Generation of completely embryonic stem cell-derived mutant mice using tetraploid blastocyst injection

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 137-145

  Wang, Zhao Qi ^a,d   Kiefer, Friedemann ^b   Urbánek, Pavel ^c   Wagner, Erwin F ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY   (Austria)

^b MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Czech Republic)

^d INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

Author keywords

ES cell injection; ES mice; tetraploid blastocysts

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE ISOMERASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TRANSFER; MICROINJECTION; MOUSE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEM CELL; TECHNIQUE; TETRAPLOIDY;

ANIMALS; B-CELL-SPECIFIC ACTIVATOR PROTEIN; BLASTOCYST; CELL LINEAGE; CHIMERA; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; GLUCOSE-6-PHOSPHATE ISOMERASE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED CBA; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; POLYPLOIDY; STEM CELLS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0030926352     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(97)00655-2     Document Type: Article

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