Spontaneous Ectopic Recombination in Cell-Type-Specific Cre Mice Removes loxP-Flanked Marker Cassettes In Vivo

Genesis (United States)

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 159-165

  Eckardt, Dominik ^a   Theis, Martin ^a,b   Döring, Britta ^a   Speidel, Dina ^a,c   Willecke, Klaus ^a   Ott, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conditional knockout; Ectopic Cre expression; Germline; Mosaicism; Selective marker removal

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 43; CRE RECOMBINASE; DNA; KANAMYCIN KINASE; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CELL TYPE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CELL; GENE CASSETTE; GENE CONVERSION; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOTYPE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MOSAICISM; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; STEM CELL; TRANSGENE;

EID: 2342503254     PISSN: 1526954X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gene.20011     Document Type: Article

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