Enhancer analysis by chicken embryo electroporation with aid of genome comparison

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 467-474

  Uchikawa, Masanori ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chicken embryo; Electroporation; Enhancer; Gene regulation; Genome comparison

Indexed keywords

ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX2;

CHICK EMBRYO; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ECTODERM; ELECTROPORATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC STRUCTURES; ENHANCER REGION; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE CONTROL; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOMIC FRAGMENT; MARKER GENE; NEURAL TUBE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPORTER GENE; REVIEW; TISSUE CULTURE;

ANIMALS; CHICK EMBRYO; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; ELECTROPORATION; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; GENOME; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MODELS, GENETIC;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 50049129991     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: 1440169X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-169X.2008.01028.x     Document Type: Review

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