A genetically engineered mouse model with inducible GFP expression in melanocytes

Pigment Cell and Melanoma Research

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 393-394

  Zaidi, M Raza ^a   Hornyak, Thomas J ^a   Merlino, Glenn ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; DOPACHROME TAUTOMERASE; DOXYCYCLINE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; TETRACYCLINE; YELLOW FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

AMPLICON; ANIMAL MODEL; CELL LABELING; DRUG MECHANISM; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTER; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOTYPE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; IN VIVO STUDY; MELANOCYTE; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; INTRAMOLECULAR OXIDOREDUCTASES; MELANOCYTES; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MODELS, ANIMAL; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RESPONSE ELEMENTS; TETRACYCLINE; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 79952602833     PISSN: 17551471     EISSN: 1755148X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-148X.2011.00832.x     Document Type: Note

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