Transgenic Xenopus laevis strain expressing Cre recombinase in muscle cells

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 235, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 2220-2228

  Waldner, Christoph ^a   Sakamaki, Kazuhiro ^b   Ueno, Naoto ^c   Turan, Gülüzar ^a   Ryffel, Gerhart U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Conditional gene expression; Cre recombinase; Transgenic Xenopus laevis

Indexed keywords

CRE RECOMBINASE; RECOMBINASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSING OVER; DSRED2 GENE; EYFP GENE; FEMALE; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INDUCTION; LACZ GENE; LIMB DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MUSCLE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPORTER GENE; REPRODUCIBILITY; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CELL LINEAGE; CLONING, ORGANISM; CROSSES, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, REPORTER; INTEGRASES; LAC OPERON; LARVA; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MALE; MUSCLE CELLS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 33747001787     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: 10970177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.20880     Document Type: Article

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