Transferring genes into cultured mammalian embryos by electroporation

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 485-497

  Takahashi, Masanori ^a   Nomura, Tadashi ^a   Osumi, Noriko ^a,b,c  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Brain development; Electroporation; Mouse; Rat; Whole embryo culture

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE; OXYGEN; PLASMID VECTOR;

CELL LINEAGE; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DISSECTION; ELECTROPORATION; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE FUNCTION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC MANIPULATION; MAMMAL; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NEUROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; CELL LINEAGE; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; ELECTROPORATION; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; OXYGEN; PLASMIDS; RATS; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; RATTUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 50049107640     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: 1440169X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-169X.2008.01046.x     Document Type: Review

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