Generation of the tamoxifen-inducible DBH-Cre transgenic mouse line DBH-CT

Genesis

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 935-941

  Stubbusch, Jutta ^a,b   Majdazari, Afsaneh ^a   Schmidt, Mirko ^a   Schütz, Günther ^c   Deller, Thomas ^b   Rohrer, Hermann ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conditional mutagenesis; Cre recombinase; DBH; Tamoxifen; Transgenic mouse

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; CRE RECOMBINASE; DOPAMINE BETA MONOOXYGENASE; TAMOXIFEN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL LINE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INACTIVATION; GENE FUNCTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORADRENERGIC NERVE; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVE CELL; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPORTER GENE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ADRENERGIC NEURONS; ANIMALS; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; CELL LINE; CROSSES, GENETIC; DOPAMINE BETA-HYDROXYLASE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, REPORTER; GENOTYPE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTEGRASES; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MODELS, ANIMAL; NEURONS; PROTEINS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TAMOXIFEN;

MUS; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 80955145282     PISSN: 1526954X     EISSN: 1526968X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvg.20773     Document Type: Article

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