Efficient generation of germ line transmitting chimeras from C57BL/6N ES cells by aggregation with outbred host embryos

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Gertsenstein, Marina ^a,b   Nutter, Lauryl M J ^c   Reid, Tammy ^d   Pereira, Monica ^a,b   Stanford, William L ^d   Rossant, Janet ^c,e   Nagy, Andras ^a,e  

^a MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b Toronto Centre for Phenogenomics   (Canada)

^c HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; C57BL 6 MOUSE; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL LINE; CHIMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; FEMALE; GENETIC RESOURCE; GERM LINE; MORULA; MOUSE; MOUSE EMBRYO; MOUSE MUTANT; NONHUMAN; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; C57BL MOUSE; CYTOLOGY; GERM CELL;

MUS;

ANIMALS; CHIMERA; CULTURE MEDIA; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; GERM CELLS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL;

EID: 77956195155     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011260     Document Type: Article

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