Visualization of lymphatic vessels by Prox1-promoter directed GFP reporter in a bacterial artificial chromosome-based transgenic mouse

Blood

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 362-365

  Choi, Inho ^a   Chung, Hee Kyoung ^a   Ramu, Swapnika ^a   Lee, Ha Neul ^a   Kim, Kyu Eui ^a   Lee, Sunju ^a   Yoo, Jaehyuk ^a   Choi, Dongwon ^a   Lee, Yong Suk ^a   Aguilar, Berenice ^a   Hong, Young Kwon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; BLOOD VESSEL; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; LYMPH VESSEL; LYMPHANGIOGENESIS; MONITORING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROX1 GENE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

EID: 78650983951     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: 15280020     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2010-07-298562     Document Type: Article

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