A protocol for imaging alternative splicing regulation in vivo using fluorescence reporters in transgenic mice

Nature Protocols

Volumn 2, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2166-2181

  Bonano, Vivian I ^a   Oltean, Sebastian ^a   Garcia Blanco, Mariano A ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIS ACTING ELEMENT; RNA; FGFR2 PROTEIN, MOUSE; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PHOTOPROTEIN; RED FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; GENE CONSTRUCT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VIVO STUDY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REPORTER GENE; RNA ANALYSIS; TISSUE SECTION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; ANIMAL; CRYOPRESERVATION; CYTOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE SILENCING; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; STAINING; STEM CELL;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CRYOPRESERVATION; GENE SILENCING; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC VECTORS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; RECEPTOR, FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR, TYPE 2; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; STAINING AND LABELING; STEM CELLS;

EID: 38449111801     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2007.292     Document Type: Article

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