FELASA guidelines for the production and nomenclature of transgenic rodents

Laboratory Animals

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 301-311

  Rulicke Th ^a,b   Montagutelli, X ^a   Pintado, B ^a   Thon, R ^a   Hedrich, H J ^a  

^a FELASA   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

Author keywords

Data sheet; Genetic background; Nomenclature; Transgenic rodents

Indexed keywords

AWARENESS; DATA BASE; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENOME; GENOTYPE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MUTAGENESIS; NOMENCLATURE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; RAT STRAIN; REVIEW; RODENT; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SPONTANEOUS MUTATION; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; MICE; RATS; TERMINOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 34547575539     PISSN: 00236772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/002367707781282758     Document Type: Review

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