Generating green fluorescent mice by germline transmission of green fluorescent ES cells

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 76, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 79-90

  Hadjantonakis, Anna Katerina ^a   Gertsenstein, Marina ^a   Ikawa, Masahito ^b   Okabe, Masaru ^b   Nagy, Andras ^a,c  

^a MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Embryonic stem; Green fluorescent protein; Mouse; Wild type

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL LABELING; CHIMERA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FLUORESCENCE; MAMMAL CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; CHIMERA; DIPLOIDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; GERM CELLS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; POLYPLOIDY; PREGNANCY; SELECTION (GENETICS); STEM CELLS; TRANSGENES;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0032143165     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(98)00093-8     Document Type: Article

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