Dre - Cre sequential recombination provides new tools for retinal ganglion cell labeling and manipulation in mice

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Sajgo, Szilard ^a,b   Ghinia, Miruna Georgiana ^a,b   Shi, Melody ^a   Liu, Pinghu ^a   Dong, Lijin ^a   Parmhans, Nadia ^a   Popescu, Octavian ^b,c   Badea, Tudor Constantin ^a  

^a NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

^c INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRE RECOMBINASE; DRE RECOMBINASE; RECOMBINASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR POU4F1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR POU4F2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; INTEGRASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR POU4;

ALLELE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRN3A GENE; BRN3B GENE; CELL LABELING; CELL MANIPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; REPORTER GENE; RETINA GANGLION CELL; ANIMAL; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PREGNANCY; PROCEDURES; STAINING; TIME; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENE KNOCK-IN TECHNIQUES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC LOCI; INTEGRASES; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PREGNANCY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; STAINING AND LABELING; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR BRN-3;

EID: 84897396656     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0091435     Document Type: Article

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