Good planning and serendipity: Exploiting the Cre/Lox system in the testis

Reproduction

Volumn 141, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 151-161

  Smith, Lee ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRE RECOMBINASE;

CELL TYPE; DNA RECOMBINATION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC MANIPULATION; HUMAN; LEYDIG CELL; LOXP SITE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; REVIEW; SERTOLI CELL; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; SOMATIC CELL; SPERMATID; SPERMATOCYTE; TESTIS; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; TRANSGENE; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; INTEGRASES; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PROTEIN-LYSINE 6-OXIDASE; TESTIS;

MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 78951475584     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: 17417899     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/REP-10-0404     Document Type: Review

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