A cre-lox P recombination approach for the detection of cell fusion in vivo

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn , Issue 59, 2012, Pages 1-4

  Sprangers, Anthony J ^a   Freeman, Brian T ^a   Kouris, Nicholas A ^a   Ogle, Brenda M ^b  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioengineering; Biophotonic imaging; Cell fusion; Cellular transplantation; Cre recombinase; Fusogen; Issue 59; Stem cell

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856998365     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/3581     Document Type: Article

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