Conditional alleles for activation and inactivation of the mouse Rx homeobox gene

Genesis

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 160-164

  Voronina, Vera A ^a,b,c   Kozlov, Serguei ^a   Mathers, Peter H ^b   Lewandoski, Mark ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anophthalmia; Conditional knockout; Craniofacial defects; Cre recombinase; Eye; FLP recombinase; Optic vesicle; Rax; Retina; Rx

Indexed keywords

CRE RECOMBINASE; RECOMBINASE;

ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANOPHTHALMIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CRANIOFACIAL MALFORMATION; DNA DETERMINATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; EYE DEVELOPMENT; FOREBRAIN; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE TARGETING; GENOTYPE; HOMEOBOX; LETHALITY; MOUSE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; NULL ALLELE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; RETINA; WILD TYPE;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CRANIOFACIAL ABNORMALITIES; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; EYE; EYE ABNORMALITIES; EYE PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HOMEOBOX; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; INTEGRASES; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 18544381703     PISSN: 1526954X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gene.20109     Document Type: Article

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