Generation of an allele to inactivate Wnt4 gene function conditionally in the mouse

Genesis

Volumn 47, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 782-788

  Shan, Jingdong ^a   Jokela, Tiina ^a   Peltoketo, Hellevi ^a,b   Vainio, Seppo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cre loxP; Kidney development; Sex organogenesis; Wnt4

Indexed keywords

WNT4 PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EXON; FEMALE; GENE TARGETING; GENOTYPE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INTRON; KIDNEY DEVELOPMENT; LIFE CYCLE; LOXP SITE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEX TRANSFORMATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; KIDNEY; MALE; MICE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WNT PROTEINS;

MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 73249147327     PISSN: 1526954X     EISSN: 1526968X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvg.20566     Document Type: Article

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