Nestin-Cre mediated deletion of Pitx2 in the mouse

Genesis (United States)

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 336-344

  Sclafani, Anthony M ^a   Skidmore, Jennifer M ^b   Ramaprakash, Hemanth ^b   Trumpp, Andreas ^c,d   Gage, Philip J ^b   Martin, Donna M ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c SWISS INST FOR EXP CANCER RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^d EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Conditional knock out; Neuronal development; Transcription

Indexed keywords

CRE RECOMBINASE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; NESTIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PITX2;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN REGION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOFACIAL MALFORMATION; EMBRYO; EYE MALFORMATION; FEMALE; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HOMOZYGOSITY; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PITX2 GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIEGER SYNDROME; SUBTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

EID: 33746844950     PISSN: 1526954X     EISSN: 1526968X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvg.20220     Document Type: Article

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