Mouse Modeling, Part 2: Breeding and Crossing Mice
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... that expresses Cre with a strain that expresses a floxed gene of interest. Cre may be expressed globally...the appropriate primers to detect your targeting vector or gene of interest.
2. Breed your parental mice...infertility and can arise due to copy number, expression level, and site of integration of the transgene...in cell lines to determine how it impacts the expression level of the transgene. In existing strains of...heterozygous background to reduce copy number or expression level effects.
Another challenge that may arise...heterozygous for each mutated allele.
Cre-lox expressing strains
Cre-lox strains are a common example ...we explained how genetic recombination in mice expressing both Cre and LoxP occurs. But how are these mice...