Tamoxifen-dependent, inducible Bmp2CreER drives selective recombinase activity in early interdigital mesenchyme and digit collateral ligaments

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Huang, Bau Lin ^a   Mackem, Susan ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 2; RECOMBINASE; TAMOXIFEN; BMP2 PROTEIN, MOUSE; CRE RECOMBINASE; INTEGRASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EMBRYO; FLYING; FORELIMB; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HINDLIMB; LIGAMENT; LIMB BUD; LIMB DEVELOPMENT; MESENCHYME; MESODERM; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; SWIMMING; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; COLLATERAL LIGAMENT; EMBRYOLOGY; ENZYMOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETICS; LIMB; METABOLISM;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMALS; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 2; COLLATERAL LIGAMENTS; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; INTEGRASES; MESODERM; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; TAMOXIFEN;

EID: 84927665025     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0123325     Document Type: Article

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