A vascular smooth muscle-specific integrin-α8 Cre mouse for lymphatic contraction studies that allows male-female comparisons and avoids visceral myopathy
Introduction: The widely-used, tamoxifen-inducible, smooth muscle (SM)-specific Cre, Myh11-CreERT2, suffers from two disadvantages: 1) it is carried on the Y-chromosome and thus only effective for gene deletion in male mice, and 2) it recombines in both vascular and non-vascular SM, potentially lead...
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Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2023-01-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Physiology |
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Online Access: | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphys.2022.1060146/full |