Comparison of male chimeric mice generated from microinjection of JM8.N4 embryonic stem cells into C57BL/6J and C57BL/6NTac blastocysts

Transgenic Research

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1149-1158

  Fielder, Thomas J ^a   Yi, Charles S ^a   Masumi, Juliet ^a   Waymire, Katrina G ^a,b   Chen, Hsiao Wen ^a,b   Wang, Shuling ^a   Shi, Kai Xuan ^a   Wallace, Douglas C ^a,b,c   MacGregor, Grant R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

C57BL 6J; ES cell chimeric mice; JM8.N4 ES cells

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; BLASTOCYST; C57BL MOUSE; CELL CULTURE; CHIMERA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; FEMALE; GENETICS; GERM CELL; LETTER; MALE; MICROINJECTION; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPERMATOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; CELLS, CULTURED; CHIMERA; DNA; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; FEMALE; GERM CELLS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROINJECTIONS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPERMATOGENESIS;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

EID: 84870372775     PISSN: 09628819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11248-012-9605-3     Document Type: Letter

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