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Inducible gene inactivation in neurons of the adult mouse forebrain.
BMC neuroscience - 2 Aug 2007
Erdmann Gitta, Schütz Günther, Berger Stefan
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BACKGROUND: The analysis of the role of genes in important brain functions like learning, memory and synaptic plasticity requires gene inactivation at the adult stage to exclude developmental effects, adaptive changes or even lethality. In order to achieve temporally controlled somatic mutagenesis, the Cre/loxP-recombination system has been complemented with the tamoxifen-inducible fusion protein consisting of...
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