In vitro Cre/loxP system in cells from developing gonads: Investigation of the Sry promoter

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 549-557

  Ito, Masanori ^a   Yokouchi, Kou ^a   Naito, Kunihiko ^a   Endo, Hitoshi ^b   Hakamata, Yoji ^b   Miyazaki, Jun Ichi ^c   Tojo, Hideaki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cre loxP; Primary culture; Transfection; Transgenic mouse

Indexed keywords

BETA ACTIN; CRE RECOMBINASE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENHANCER REGION; FEMALE; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PROMOTER REGION; SEX DETERMINATION; SRY GENE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; Y CHROMOSOME;

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; FEMALE; GENES, SRY; GONADS; INTEGRASES; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; VIRAL PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; MUS MUSCULUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036924368     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-169X.2002.00668.x     Document Type: Article

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