Use of the Gal4-UAS technique for targeted gene expression in the zebrafish

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 153-158

  Scheer, Nico ^a   Campos Ortega, José A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

GAL4 UAS system; Transgenic lines; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CROSS BREEDING; DNA BINDING; EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE FUSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TECHNIQUE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; ZEBRA FISH;

ACTINS; ADENOVIRUS E1B PROTEINS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CROSSES, GENETIC; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, MYC; GENES, REPORTER; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PILOT PROJECTS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-MYC; RECEPTOR, NOTCH1; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SIMIAN VIRUS 40; SIMPLEXVIRUS; THYMIDINE KINASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSGENES; VIRAL PROTEINS; ZEBRAFISH;

ANIMALIA; DANIO RERIO;

EID: 0033054017     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(98)00209-3     Document Type: Article

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