Drug-Inducible gene recombination by the Dppa3-MER Cre MER transgene in the developmental cycle of the germ cell lineage in mice

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 367-377

  Hirota, Takayuki ^a,b,c   Ohta, Hiroshi ^a   Shigeta, Mayo ^b   Niwa, Hitoshi ^b   Saitou, Mitinori ^a,b,c  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Early development; Genetics; Oocyte; Primordial germ cells; Transgenic knockout model

Indexed keywords

AFIMOXIFENE; CRE RECOMBINASE; DPPA3 PROTEIN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; MURINE ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GERM CELL; LIGAND BINDING; LOXP SITE; MALE; MESONEPHROS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REPORTER GENE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; TRANSGENICS;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, REPORTER; INTEGRASES; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TAMOXIFEN;

MURINAE; MUS;

EID: 80052527291     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.110.090662     Document Type: Article

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