Tissue-Specific Knockout of Androgen Receptor in Mice

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 776, Issue , 2011, Pages 275-293

  Lin, Tzu hua ^a   Yeh, Shuyuan ^a   Chang, Chawnshang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Androgen receptor; androgen receptor knockout mice; Cre lox system; tissue specific knockdown; transgenic mice

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CELL CULTURE; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; FEMALE; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE TARGETING; GENE VECTOR; GENETICS; MALE; MOLECULAR TYPING; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT;

ANIMALS; BREEDING; CELLS, CULTURED; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; FEMALE; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC VECTORS; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MOLECULAR TYPING; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN;

MUS; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 80052943368     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: 19406029     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-243-4_16     Document Type: Chapter

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