Quantitative genotyping of mouse brain-specific PEX13 gene disruption by real-time PCR

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 181, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 73-81

  Müller, C Catharina ^a   Nourse, Jamie P ^a   Nguyen, Tam H ^a   Crane, Denis I ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Conditional mutants; Cre recombinase; Fixed tissue; Gene excision efficiency; Genotyping; Quantitative real time PCR; Tissue specific gene disruption; Transgenic mice

Indexed keywords

CRE RECOMBINASE; DNA; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PARAFORMALDEHYDE; PROTEIN PEX13; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENOTYPE; LOXP SITE; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TISSUE FIXATION; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; BRAIN; GENOTYPE; INTEGRASES; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 67349265143     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2009.04.025     Document Type: Article

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