Transgenic frogs expressing the highly fluorescent protein venus under the control of a strong mammalian promoter suitable for monitoring living cells

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 233, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 562-569

  Sakamaki, Kazuhiro ^a   Takagi, Chiyo ^b   Yoshino, Jun ^c   Yokota, Hideo ^d   Nakamura, Sakiko ^d   Kominami, Katsuya ^a   Hyodo, Akiko ^b   Takamune, Kazufumi ^e   Yuge, Masahiro ^f   Ueno, Naoto ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Japan Science and Technology Agency   (Japan)

^e KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f FUKUOKA WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Three dimensional image; Transgenic frog; Transplantation; Xenopus; YFP

Indexed keywords

BETA ACTIN; YELLOW FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; BRAIN GRAFT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FROG; GERM CELL; IMPLANTATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; XENOPUS;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BRAIN; BRAIN TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; GERM CELLS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MAMMALS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALIA; ANURA; CUCUMBER MOSAIC VIRUS; GALLUS GALLUS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 21144441345     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.20350     Document Type: Conference Paper

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