Quantitative phenotyping as an efficient means to estimate C-cell number in a knock-in mouse model of MEN2B

Transgenic Research

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 339-348

  Cranston, Aaron ^a   Howard, Louise ^a   Vyvyan Howard, C ^b  

^a IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

^b School of Medicine   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

knock in; optical fractionator; quantitative phenotyping; ret oncogene; stereology

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; C57BL MOUSE; CROSS BREEDING; DISEASE MODEL; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; MOUSE; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; PARATHYROID GLAND; PATHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; THYROID GLAND; TRACHEA; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; CROSSES, GENETIC; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MULTIPLE ENDOCRINE NEOPLASIA TYPE 2B; PARATHYROID GLANDS; PHENOTYPE; THYROID GLAND; TRACHEA;

EID: 4444261124     PISSN: 09628819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:TRAG.0000040041.61863.20     Document Type: Article

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