Muscle specific expression of Cre recombinase under two actin promoters in trasgenic mice

Genesis

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 136-138

  Miwa, Takeshi ^a   Koyama, Tohru ^a   Shirai, Manabu ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTIN; CRE RECOMBINASE; GENE PRODUCT; RECOMBINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HEART MUSCLE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SMOOTH MUSCLE; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; FEMALE; INTEGRASES; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MUSCLES; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); VIRAL PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0034062228     PISSN: 1526954X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1526-968X(200002)26:2<136::AID-GENE11>3.0.CO;2-J     Document Type: Article

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