High-efficiency somatic mutagenesis in smooth muscle cells and cardiac myocytes in SM22α-Cre transgenic mice

Genesis

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 179-184

  Lepore, John J ^a,b   Cheng, Lan ^a   Min, Min Lu ^a   Mericko, Patricia A ^a   Morrisey, Edward E ^a   Parmacek, Michael S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular development; Conditional gene targeting; Vascular smooth muscle

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; CRE RECOMBINASE; CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; PROTEIN SM22 ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; AORTA; ARTERY; ARTICLE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GENOTYPE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; MITOTIC RECOMBINATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; SOMATIC MUTATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE; VASCULARIZATION; VENOUS CIRCULATION;

ANIMALS; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; FEMALE; INTEGRASES; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MODELS, ANIMAL; MUSCLE PROTEINS; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; MUTAGENESIS; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

MURINAE; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 18544365376     PISSN: 1526954X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gene.20112     Document Type: Article

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