Mouse in red: Red fluorescent protein expression in mouse ES cells, embryos, and adult animals

Genesis (United States)

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 241-246

  Vintersten, Kristina ^a   Monetti, Claudio ^a   Gertsenstein, Marina ^a   Zhang, Puzheng ^a   Laszlo, Lajos ^b   Biechele, Steffen ^a   Nagy, Andras ^a,c  

^a MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b Biochemical Laboratory Services   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Conditional gene expression; Cre recombinase; DsRed; lac Z; loxP; Red fluorescent protein; RFP; Tetraploid embryo complementation; Transgenic mice

Indexed keywords

CRE RECOMBINASE; RED FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL AGGREGATION; ELECTROPORATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPORTER GENE; TETRAPLOIDY; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 12144250691     PISSN: 1526954X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gene.20095     Document Type: Article

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