An Efficient Method for Generation of Transgenic Rats Avoiding Embryo Manipulation

Although rats are preferred over mice as an animal model, transgenic animals are generated predominantly using mouse embryos. There are limitations in the generation of transgenic rat by embryo manipulation. Unlike mouse embryos, most of the rat embryos do not survive after male pronuclear DNA injec...

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Main Authors: Bhola Shankar Pradhan, Subeer S. Majumdar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2016-01-01
Series:Molecular Therapy: Nucleic Acids
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2162253117301208