Technicolour transgenics: Imaging tools for functional genomics in the mouse

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 613-625

  Hadjantonakis, Anna Katerina ^a   Dickinson, Mary E ^b   Fraser, Scott E ^b   Papaioannou, Virginia E ^a  

^a New York Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BLEACHING; CHIMERA; CLONE; COELENTERATE; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; ECTODERM; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL MEDIATED TRANSGENESIS; FATE MAP; FLUORESCENCE; FLUOROPHORE; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GENOMICS; HEMIZYGOTE; HEMODYNAMICS; IMAGING; LASER MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOSAICISM; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; MUSHROOM BODY; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PERDURANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STABILITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTUM YIELD; REPORTER GENE; REVIEW; STATIC CULTURE SYSTEM; STEM CELL; TECHNICOLOR TRANSGENICS; THERMOLABILITY; THERMOSTABILITY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; TRANSGENICS; TROPHOBLAST; VISUAL AID; VITAL STAIN; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

ANIMALS; GENES, REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; KIDNEY; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MUTAGENESIS; TIME FACTORS;

BASIDIOMYCOTA; COELENTERATA; MAMMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0042265305     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg1126     Document Type: Review

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