Identification of homozygous and heterozygous dy(2J) mice by PCR

Neuromuscular Disorders

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 59-62

  Vilquin, Jean Thomas ^a   Vignier, Nicolas ^a   Tremblay, Jacques P ^b   Engvall, Eva ^c   Schwartz, Ketty ^a   Fiszman, Marc ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c BURNHAM INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Congenital muscular dystrophy; dy(2J) dy(2J) mouse; Dystrophia muscularis; Laminin 2 chain; NdeI restriction site

Indexed keywords

LAMININ; MUTANT PROTEIN;

ALLELE; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; MOUSE; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TECHNIQUE;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA RESTRICTION ENZYMES; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; LAMININ; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY, ANIMAL; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0033988183     PISSN: 09608966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-8966(99)00056-5     Document Type: Article

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