Rapid screening of gene function by systemic delivery of morpholino oligonucleotides to live mouse embryos

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  McClelland, Kathryn S ^a   Wainwright, Elanor N ^a   Bowles, Josephine ^a   Koopman, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAMTS19; ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; CHYMOTRYPSINOGEN; CHYMOTRYPSINOGEN B1; METALLOPROTEINASE; MORPHOLINO OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GLI1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GLI2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX9; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ADAM PROTEIN; CHYMOTRYPSIN; CHYMOTRYPSIN B; GLI PROTEIN, MOUSE; KRUPPEL LIKE FACTOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCING ADAPTOR PROTEIN; STRA8 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ADAMTS19 GENE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CTRB1 GENE; EMBRYO; EXPLANT; GENE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GESTATION PERIOD; GONAD; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; HEART; INJECTION; LEYDIG CELL; MOUSE; MOUSE EMBRYO; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PANCREAS; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SCREENING; SEX DETERMINATION; STRA8 GENE; TESTIS; TISSUE CULTURE; VASCULARIZATION; ANIMAL; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETICS; MALE; MAMMALIAN EMBRYO; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES;

MUS;

ADAM PROTEINS; ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; ANIMALS; CHYMOTRYPSIN; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; GENE TARGETING; GONADS; INJECTIONS; KRUPPEL-LIKE TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; MALE; MICE; MORPHOLINOS; ORGANOGENESIS; PANCREAS; SOX9 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TESTIS;

EID: 84961291915     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0114932     Document Type: Article

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