PiggyBac transposon-mediated cellular transgenesis in mammalian forebrain by in utero electroporation

Cold Spring Harbor Protocols

Volumn 2014, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 741-749

  Maher, Brady J ^a,b   Loturco, Joseph J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLASMID DNA; TRANSPOSON;

ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; ELECTROPORATION; FOREBRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; IN UTERO ELECTROPORATION; METHODOLOGY; NEOCORTEX; NEURAL STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; PIGGYBAC TRANSPOSON; PROMOTER REGION; RAT; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENICS; TRANSPOSON; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; GENE TRANSFER; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PREGNANCY;

MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, BACTERIAL; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ELECTROPORATION; FEMALE; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; PREGNANCY; PROSENCEPHALON; RATS;

EID: 84923817223     PISSN: 19403402     EISSN: 15596095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/pdb.prot073650     Document Type: Article

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