Generation of mice with a conditional null Fraser syndrome 1 (Fras1) allele

Genesis

Volumn 50, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 892-898

  Pitera, Jolanta E ^a   Turmaine, Mark ^b   Woolf, Adrian S ^c   Scambler, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

blebbed; Glomerulus; Renal agenesis; Skin

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLISTER; DOWN REGULATION; FRASER SYNDROME; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; KIDNEY AGENESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NULL ALLELE; PODOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BLISTER; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; DOWN-REGULATION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; KIDNEY; KIDNEY DISEASES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PODOCYTES;

MUS;

EID: 84871643754     PISSN: 1526954X     EISSN: 1526968X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvg.22045     Document Type: Article

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