Transmitochondrial mice carrying resistance to chloramphenicol on mitochondrial DNA: Developing the first mouse model of mitochondrial DNA disease

Nature Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 957-960

  Marchington, David R ^a   Barlow, David ^b   Poulton, Joanna ^a  

^a JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMPHENICOL; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; DISORDERS OF MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTIONS; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

3T3 CELLS; ANIMALS; CELL FUSION; CHIMERA; CHLORAMPHENICOL O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE; FEMALE; HYBRID CELLS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROINJECTIONS; OOCYTES; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; STEM CELLS;

EID: 0032780102     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/11403     Document Type: Short Survey

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