Generation of mice with a conditional Foxp2 null allele

Genesis (United States)

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 440-446

  French, Catherine A ^a   Groszer, Matthias ^a   Preece, Christopher ^a   Coupe, Anne Marie ^a   Rajewsky, Klaus ^b   Fisher, Simon E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain development; Conditional null allele; Foxp2; Sox2 Cre; Speech and language

Indexed keywords

CRE RECOMBINASE; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CEREBELLUM; CORPUS STRIATUM; EMBRYO; EXON; FEMALE; FOXP2 GENE; GENE; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HOMOZYGOTE; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LETHALITY; LOXP SITE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NULL ALLELE; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN MOTIF; SPEECH; THALAMUS; TRANSGENE;

MUS;

EID: 34547653713     PISSN: 1526954X     EISSN: 1526968X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvg.20305     Document Type: Article

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