Ubiquitous transgene expression and Cre-based recombination driven by the ubiquitin promoter in zebrafish

Development

Volumn 138, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 169-177

  Mosimann, Christian ^a,b   Kaufman, Charles K ^c   Li, Pulin ^a,b   Pugach, Emily K ^a,b   Tamplin, Owen J ^a,b   Zon, Leonard I ^a,b,c  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

CreER; LoxP; Transgenesis; Ubiquitin promoter; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

AFIMOXIFENE; CRE RECOMBINASE; UBIQUITIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL; CELL LINEAGE; CELL TYPE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; KIDNEY MEDULLA; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; ENZYME ACTIVATION; INTEGRASES; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TAMOXIFEN; TRANSGENES; UBIQUITIN; ZEBRAFISH;

DANIO RERIO;

EID: 78650724551     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.059345     Document Type: Article

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