A genetic strategy for the analysis of individual axon morphologies in cGMP signalling mutant mice

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 1020, Issue , 2013, Pages 193-204

  Schmidt, Hannes ^a   Ter Avetisyan, Gohar ^a   Rathjen, Fritz G ^a  

^a MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Axonal branching; cGKI; cGMP; CNP; Cre recombinase; DRG; Npr2; Sparse neuronal labelling; Tamoxifen

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; CRE RECOMBINASE; CYCLIC GMP; CYCLIC GMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE 1; NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE RECEPTOR 2; NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE TYPE C; RECEPTOR; TAMOXIFEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPINAL GANGLION;

MUS;

EID: 84883201292     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-62703-459-3_12     Document Type: Article

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