Tet-on binary systems for tissue-specific and inducible transgene expression

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 917, Issue , 2012, Pages 265-275

  Buchholz, Daniel R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

Doxycyline; Frog transgenesis; rtTA; Tetracycline response element; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868590870     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-992-1_16     Document Type: Article

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