Promises and pitfalls of a Pannexin1 transgenic mouse line

Frontiers in Pharmacology

Volumn 4 MAY, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Hanstein, Regina ^a   Negoro, Hiromitsu ^a   Patel, Naman K ^a   Charollais, Anne ^b   Meda, Paolo ^b   Spray, David C ^a   Suadicani, Sylvia O ^a   Scemes, Eliana ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cell specific deletion; Cre recombinase; Hypomorphism; Pannexin; qPCR

Indexed keywords

CRE RECOMBINASE; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BLADDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRE GENE; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; HOMOZYGOTE; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PANNEXIN1 GENE; PHENOTYPE; PROGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPLEEN; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; TRIGEMINUS GANGLION; WILD TYPE;

EID: 84879253253     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16639812     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fphar.2013.00061     Document Type: Article

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