Temporally controlled site-specific mutagenesis in the germ cell lineage of the mouse testis

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 553-559

  Weber, Philipp ^b   Schuler, Michael ^a   Gérard, Christelle ^a   Mark, Manuel ^a   Metzger, Daniel ^a   Chambon, Pierre ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE GÉNÉTIQUE ET DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

^b University of Zurich Brain Research Institute   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Gametogenesis; Spermatogenesis; Testis

Indexed keywords

CRE RECOMBINASE; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PRION PROTEIN; RECOMBINASE; TAMOXIFEN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CELL LINEAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CASSETTE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GERM CELL; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPORTER GENE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; TESTIS; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CELL LINEAGE; ESTROGEN ANTAGONISTS; GENES, REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; INTEGRASES; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION; PREGNANCY PROTEINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SPERMATOZOA; TAMOXIFEN; TESTIS; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; VIRAL PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0037307628     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.102.005801     Document Type: Article

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