Pronuclear injection-based mouse targeted transgenesis for reproducible and highly efficient transgene expression

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 38, Issue 22, 2010, Pages

  Ohtsuka, Masato ^a   Ogiwara, Sanae ^a   Miura, Hiromi ^a   Mizutani, Akiko ^a   Warita, Takayuki ^a   Sato, Masahiro ^b   Imai, Kenji ^a   Hozumi, Katsuto ^a   Sato, Takehito ^a   Tanaka, Masafumi ^a   Kimura, Minoru ^a   Inoko, Hidetoshi ^a  

^a TOKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION SYSTEM; GENE LOCUS; GENE TARGETING; GENOTYPE; HISTOLOGY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRONUCLEAR INJECTION BASED TARGETED TRANSGENESIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; TRANSGENICS;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; GENE TARGETING; INJECTIONS; INTEGRASES; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; OVUM; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE DELETION; TRANSGENES;

MUS; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 78650498944     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq860     Document Type: Article

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