The calpain small subunit gene is essential: Its inactivation results in embryonic lethality

IUBMB Life

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 63-68

  Zimmerman, Un Jin P ^a   Boring, Landin ^b   Pak, UJhang Ho ^a   Mukerjee, Neeta ^c   Wang, Kevin K W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b DNX Transgenic Sciences   (United States)

^c PFIZER INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Calpain; Calpain small regulatory subunit; Embryonic lethality; Gene knockout; Homologous gene recombination

Indexed keywords

CALPAIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO RESORPTION; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; STEM CELL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0033788531     PISSN: 15216543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15216540050176610     Document Type: Article

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