Generation of a floxed allele of Smad5 for Cre-mediated conditional knockout in the mouse

Genesis (United States)

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 5-11

  Umans, Lieve ^a   Vermeire, Liesbeth ^a   Francis, Annick ^a   Chang, Hua ^b,c   Huylebroeck, Danny ^a   Zwijsen, An ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditional allele; Cre recombinase; Gene targeting; MADH5; Mouse; Smad5

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; CRE RECOMBINASE; GENOMIC DNA; SMAD PROTEIN; SMAD5 PROTEIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEATH; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE TARGETING; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HEMATOPOIESIS; HISTOLOGY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TIME; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0141884395     PISSN: 1526954X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gene.10219     Document Type: Article

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