A tightly controlled conditional knockdown system using the Tol2 transposon-mediated technique

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Iguchi, Tokuichi ^a,b   Yagi, Hideshi ^a   Wang, Chen Chi ^a   Sato, Makoto ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTOR PROTEIN; AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN; DISABLED 1 PROTEIN; TETRACYCLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; APLP1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CELL MIGRATION; CELL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INDUCTION; GENE SILENCING; GENE VECTOR; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; TOL2 GENE; TRANSGENE; TRANSPOSON; ANIMAL; BRAIN; ELECTROPORATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMMUNOBLOTTING; INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH MOUSE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE;

AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN PRECURSOR; ANIMALS; BRAIN; DNA PRIMERS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ELECTROPORATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; GENETIC VECTORS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE;

EID: 84863249069     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0033380     Document Type: Article

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