Recombineering strategies for developing next generation BAC transgenic tools for optogenetics and beyond

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue APR, 2014, Pages

  Ting, Jonathan T ^a,b   Feng, Guoping ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b ALLEN INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adora2a; BAC recombineering; Bacterial artificial chromosome; Chat; DAT; Drd1a; Drd2; Transgenic mice

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; CELL SPECIFICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MODIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPTOGENETICS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENICS;

EID: 84897539406     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00111     Document Type: Article

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