Gain-of-function and loss-of-function strategies in Xenopus

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 469, Issue , 2008, Pages 401-415

  Lavery, Danielle L ^a   Hoppler, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

BIO; Microinjection; Morpholino; Small molecule inhibitors; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

VERTEBRATA;

ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; MESSENGER RNA; WNT PROTEIN; XENOPUS PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; INSTRUMENTATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROINJECTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MICROINJECTIONS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WNT PROTEINS; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

EID: 84934444395     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-60327-469_25     Document Type: Article

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