Generation of an Rx-tTA: TetOp-Cre Knock-In Mouse Line for Doxycycline Regulated Cre Activity in the Rx Expression Domain

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Plageman, Timothy F ^a   Lang, Richard A ^a,b  

^a CINCINNATI CHILDREN S HOSPITAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRE RECOMBINASE; DOXYCYCLINE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RX; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIENCEPHALON; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME REGULATION; EYE DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENE; GENE CASSETTE; GENE TARGETING; GENE VECTOR; NEUROHYPOPHYSIS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETINA DEVELOPMENT; RX GENE;

EID: 84870264324     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0050426     Document Type: Article

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