A transgenic mouse line expressing cre recombinase in undifferentiated postmitotic mouse retinal bipolar cell precursors

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Nickerson, Philip E B ^a   Ronellenfitch, Kara ^a   McEwan, Jason ^a   Kim, Howard ^b   McInnes, Roderick R ^c   Chow, Robert L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; CALBINDIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CRE RECOMBINASE; PROTEIN KINASE C ALPHA; PROTEIN VSX2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX9; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; INTEGRASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; VSX2 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CELL LINEAGE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENOTYPE; INTERNEURON; MITOSIS; MOUSE; MUELLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RETINA BIPOLAR GANGLION CELL; START CODON; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; ANIMAL; C3H MOUSE; C57BL MOUSE; CELL CULTURE; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA; STEM CELL;

MUS MUSCULUS;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; FEMALE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; INTEGRASES; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MITOSIS; NEURONS; RETINA; RETINAL BIPOLAR CELLS; STEM CELLS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSGENES;

EID: 80055114307     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0027145     Document Type: Article

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