PITT: Pronuclear injection-based targeted transgenesis, a reliable transgene expression method in mice

Experimental Animals

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 489-502

  Ohtsuka, Masato ^a   Miura, Hiromi ^a   Sato, Masahiro ^b   Kimura, Minoru ^a   Inoko, Hidetoshi ^a   Gurumurthy, Channabasavaiah B ^c  

^a TOKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Mouse; PITT; Pronuclear injection; Targeted transgenesis; Transgene expression

Indexed keywords

CRE RECOMBINASE; INTEGRASE; RECOMBINASE; ZINC FINGER NUCLEASE;

DNA MODIFICATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ENZYME BINDING; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ENGINEERING; H2 TW3 GENE; HIPP11 GENE; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HPRT GENE; HUMAN; LOXP SITE; NONHUMAN; PRONUCLEAR INJECTION BASED TARGETED TRANSGENESIS; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; ROSA26 GENE; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENICS;

ANIMALS; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; INTEGRASES; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROINJECTIONS; NUCLEAR TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RIBONUCLEASES; TRANSGENES; ZINC FINGERS;

EID: 84874049660     PISSN: 13411357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1538/expanim.61.489     Document Type: Review

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