Bac to the future: The use of bac transgenic mice for neuroscience research

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 861-870

  Heintz, Nathaniel ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MUS MUSCULUS;

HYBRID PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; BRAIN; CHROMOSOME MAP; EMBRYOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; NEUROSCIENCE; PHENOTYPE; REVIEW; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMAL; BRAIN; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HUMAN; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEUROSCIENCES; PHENOTYPE; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS;

EID: 0035651255     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35104049     Document Type: Article

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