Mouse Reporter Strain for Noninvasive Bioluminescent Imaging of Cells that Have Undergone Cre-Mediated Recombination

Molecular Imaging

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 297-302

  Safran, Michal ^a   Kim, William Y ^a   Kung, Andrew L ^a   Horner, James W ^a   DePinho, Ron A ^a   Kaelin Jr , William G ^b,c  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioluminescent; Conditional allele; Cre recombinase; Knockout; Luciferase

Indexed keywords

CONDITIONAL ALLELE; CRE RECOMBINASE; LUCIFERASE EXPRESSION;

CELLS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DIFFUSION; DNA; FLUORESCENCE; GENES; IMAGE CODING; MEDICAL IMAGING; PROTEINS;

BIOLUMINESCENCE;

ALBUMINOID; CRE RECOMBINASE; INTEGRASE; LUCIFERASE; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ADENOVIRUS; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CYTOLOGY; FIBROBLAST; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; KIDNEY; LIVER; LUMINESCENCE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ADENOVIRIDAE; ALBUMINS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; FIBROBLASTS; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC ENGINEERING; INTEGRASES; KIDNEY; LIVER; LUCIFERASES; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 1642516133     PISSN: 15353508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/153535003322750637     Document Type: Article

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