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...heterozygous for each mutated allele.
Cre-lox expressing strains
Cre-lox strains are a common example of... in mice expressing both Cre and LoxP occurs. But how are these mice made to begin with? Cre-lox mice ...tissue-specific manner (with expression controlled by a tissue-specific promoter). And, Cre may also be either ...constitutively expressed, or inducible (this is explained more in Part 1 of this series). In any case, Cre is a ...which you’ll want to genotype your mice for expression of Cre, loxP, and your gene of interest. To ensure...site, your control should be littermates that express Cre but not loxP.
With this two-part guide to mouse...