Heat shock protein 2 promoter drives Cre expression in spermatocytes of transgenic mice

Genesis

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 114-120

  Inselman, Amy L ^a,b   Nakamura, Noriko ^a,c   Brown, Paula R ^a   Willis, William D ^a   Goulding, Eugenia H ^a   Eddy, Edward M ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR TOXICOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^c MARSHALL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditional mutant; Cre recombinase; Heat shock protein; Mice; Spermatogenesis; Transgene

Indexed keywords

CRE RECOMBINASE; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 2; MESSENGER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; C57BL 6 MOUSE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PACHYTENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPERMATOCYTE; TESTIS; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; GENES, REPORTER; HSP27 HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTEGRASES; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RNA, MESSENGER; SPERMATOCYTES; TESTIS; TRANSGENES;

MUS; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 77249088180     PISSN: 1526954X     EISSN: 1526968X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvg.20588     Document Type: Article

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