Tissue-specific transgenic, conditional knockout and knock-in mice of genes in the canonical Wnt signaling pathway

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 468, Issue , 2008, Pages 307-331

  Aoki, Koji ^a   Taketo, Makoto M ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Catenin; APC; Conditional; Cre loxP; Knock in; Knockout; Tet; Tissue specific; Transgenic; Wnt signaling

Indexed keywords

MUS;

WNT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; GENE TARGETING; GENETICS; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; GENE KNOCK-IN TECHNIQUES; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WNT PROTEINS;

EID: 58749091499     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-59745-249-6_24     Document Type: Article

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