Gene knockout protocols /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Tymms, Martin J., Kola, Ismail
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press, [2001]
Series:Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) ; v. 158.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Overview: gene knockouts
  • Isolation and maintenance of primate embryonic stem cells
  • Gene targeting in ES cells
  • Manipulating mouse embryonic stem cells
  • Gene targeting in a centralized facility
  • The loxP/CRE system and genome modification
  • Creation and use of a Cre recombinase transgenic database
  • Choice of mouse strains for gene targeting
  • Isolation, microinjection, and transfer of mouse blastocysts
  • Aggregatin chimeras: combining ES cells, diploid and tetraploid embryos
  • How to study pathologic phenotypes of knockout mice
  • Analysis of hematopoietic phenotypes in knockout mouse models
  • Isolation of embryonic fibroblasts and their use in the in vitro characterization of gene function
  • Influence of genetic background on knockout mouse phenotypes
  • Lineage allocation during early embryogenesis: mapping of the neural primordia and application to the analysis of mouse mutants
  • Generation of double-knockout, embryonic stem cells
  • In vitro differentiation of embryonic stem cells and analysis of cellular phenotypes
  • Embryonic stem cells in teh study of hematopoiesis
  • Interferon-inducible ES cell expression systems
  • Transgenic studies in the mouse: improving the technology towards a conditional temporal and spatial approach
  • In vivo libraries of large insert transgenic mice for genetic mapping
  • Epigenetic effects on transgene expression
  • Positional-candidate cloning of genes from mouse mutants
  • Genetically engineered mice: husbandry and resouces
  • Embryo cryopreservation for transgenic mouse lines.