This volume comprehensively covers new technologies and methodologies that have appeared for the study of mouse development.
- First of a 2 part update of volume 225, Guide to Techniques in Mouse Development, edited by P.M. Wassarman and M.L. DePamphilis and published in 1993
- Comprehensively covers:
- new techniques for the cryopreservation of gametes and embryos
- production of transgenic and null (knockout) animals (use of ES cells)
- generation of conditional/inducible mutant animals
- use of gene-trap mutagenesis
- analysis of allele-specific expression
- use of new reporter constructs
- humanizing of transgenic animals
- transcript profiling of mouse development, imaging of mouse development
- rederivation of animals and use of mouse genomics
Philippe Soriano,is Professor of Cell, Developmental & Regenerative Biology and Professor of Oncological Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY, USA