Conditional alleles in mice: Practical considerations for tissue-specific knockouts

Genesis

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 49-62

  Kwan, Kin Ming ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditional genetics; Cre loxP; Flp FRT; Mosaic; Tissue specific knockout

Indexed keywords

CRE RECOMBINASE; RECOMBINASE;

ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; BREEDING METHOD; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CONDITIONAL ALLELE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DISEASE MODEL; DNA MODIFICATION; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENE MAPPING; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC MANIPULATION; KNOCKOUT GENE; MOSAICISM; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NULL ALLELE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC MARKERS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MOSAICISM; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; RECOMBINASES; STEM CELLS;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0036195189     PISSN: 1526954X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gene.10068     Document Type: Review

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