Description

Homozygous generally embryonic lethal, behave abnormal blood vessel development. In this strain, iCre-ERT2 recombinase expression is under the control of Cdh5 promoter. An iCre-ERT2 sequence cassette was placed between the coding sequence of exon 2 and 5’UTR of the Cdh5 gene, and the expression of endogenous Cdh5 gene in mice was disrupted. When crossed with a strain containing a loxP-site flanked sequence of interest, and induced with Tamoxifen, Cre-mediated recombination will result in deletion of the floxed sequence in the offspring.

Application

•Function research of genes

•Research on cardiovascular system, tumor and cell differentiation mechanism

Phenotype analysis

Immunofluorescent images of tdTomato and CD31 in the main organs of double-positive mice. CD31 is endothelial marker. Scale bar, 25 µm.

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