Transgenic techniques for cell ablation or molecular deletion to investigate functions of astrocytes and other GFAP-expressing cell types

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 814, Issue , 2012, Pages 531-544

  Sofroniew, Michael V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Astrocyte; Cre recombinase; Gene knockout; Glial fibrillary acidic protein; Gliosis; loxP; Thymidine kinase; Transgenic

Indexed keywords

CRE RECOMBINASE; GANCICLOVIR; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ASTROCYTIC PROTEIN, MOUSE; INTEGRASE; NERVE PROTEIN; PRIMER DNA; THYMIDINE KINASE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL DEATH; CYTOLOGY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE DELETION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GLIOSIS; METABOLISM; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROMOTER REGION; SIMPLEXVIRUS; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; CELL DEATH; DNA PRIMERS; GANCICLOVIR; GENE DELETION; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; GENOTYPE; GLIOSIS; INTEGRASES; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SIMPLEXVIRUS; THYMIDINE KINASE; TRANSGENES;

EID: 84855918291     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-452-0_35     Document Type: Article

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