Spatial and temporal lineage analysis of a Pitx3-driven cre-recombinase knock-in mouse model

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Smidt, Marten P ^a,b   von Oerthel, Lars ^a   Hoekstra, Elisa J ^a,b   Schellevis, Raymond D ^b   Hoekman, Marco F M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRE RECOMBINASE; ENHANCED YELLOW FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; FLUORESCENT DYE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PITX3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL LINEAGE; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; EMBRYO; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC MANIPULATION; GENETIC REGULATION; KNOCKIN MOUSE; MESODIENCEPHALIC DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PITX3 GENE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN INDUCTION; REPORTER GENE;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; DEPRESSION; DIENCEPHALON; DOPAMINERGIC NEURONS; GENE KNOCK-IN TECHNIQUES; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC LOCI; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; INTEGRASES; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PARKINSON DISEASE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SCHIZOPHRENIA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

MUS;

EID: 84864751499     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0042641     Document Type: Article

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