Mouse Modeling, Part 1: Genetically Engineered Mice
Type
Blog Post
Published
July 11, 2019, 1:26 p.m.
...reproducibility of experiments. Inbred mice are particularly useful for understanding a specific effect related...that alters or eliminates the expression of a particular gene. Targeting vectors used to create knockout... a way to track successfully engineered cells. Similar to transgenic mice, knockout mice are engineered...off-target effects on regions of the genome with similar homology to the site of interest or create mosaic...recombination of floxed sites in the cell can occur. Similar systems include tetracycline or doxycycline mediated...