Lcn5 promoter directs the region-specific expression of cre recombinase in caput epididymidis of transgenic mice

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Xie, Shengsong ^a,b   Xu, Juan ^c   Ma, Wubin ^a,b   Liu, Qiang ^a,b   Han, Jinxiong ^c   Yao, Guangxin ^a,b   Huang, Xingxu ^c   Zhang, Yonglian ^a,b,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND CELL BIOLOGY   (China)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF PLANNED PARENTHOOD RESEARCH   (China)

Author keywords

Caput; Cre recombinase; Epididymis; Lcn5 promoter; Male reproductive tract; Transgenic knockout model

Indexed keywords

CRE RECOMBINASE; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL STRAIN HEK293; EPIDIDYMIS TAIL; HEAD; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN CELL CULTURE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA EXTRACTION; SPERMATOZOON MATURATION; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; EPIDIDYMIS; GENES, REPORTER; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; INTEGRASES; MALE; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RAS GTPASE-ACTIVATING PROTEINS; RETINOL-BINDING PROTEINS, PLASMA; RNA, MESSENGER;

MUS; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 84877019818     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.112.104034     Document Type: Article

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