Generation of mice harboring a Sox6 conditional null allele

Genesis (United States)

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 219-224

  Dumitriu, Bogdan ^a   Dy, Peter ^a   Smits, Patrick ^a   Lefebvre, Véronique ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cre loxP; Gene targeting; Skeletogenesis; Sox6

Indexed keywords

BETA ACTIN; CRE RECOMBINASE; ERYTHROPOIETIN RECEPTOR; GANCICLOVIR; GENOMIC DNA; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; NEOMYCIN; RECOMBINASE; RNA; THYMIDINE KINASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX6; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRTH DEFECT; BONE DEVELOPMENT; CARTILAGE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOTYPE; GERM CELL; HEMATOPOIETIC TISSUE; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP BOX DOMAIN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LETHALITY; LOXP SITE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NULL ALLELE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; SOMATIC CELL; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SRY GENE; TESTIS; TRANSGENE; WILD TYPE;

EID: 33745047278     PISSN: 1526954X     EISSN: 1526968X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvg.20210     Document Type: Article

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