Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10826101 | Methods | 2011 | 16 Pages |
Abstract
Model organisms like the mouse are important tools to learn more about gene function in man. Within the last 20Â years many mutant mouse lines have been generated by different methods such as ENU mutagenesis, constitutive and conditional knock-out approaches, knock-down, introduction of human genes, and knock-in techniques, thus creating models which mimic human conditions. Due to pleiotropic effects, one gene may have different functions in different organ systems or time points during development. Therefore mutant mouse lines have to be phenotyped comprehensively in a highly standardized manner to enable the detection of phenotypes which might otherwise remain hidden. The German Mouse Clinic (GMC) has been established at the Helmholtz Zentrum München as a phenotyping platform with open access to the scientific community (www.mousclinic.de; [1]). The GMC is a member of the EUMODIC consortium which created the European standard workflow EMPReSSslim for the systemic phenotyping of mouse models (http://www.eumodic.org/[2]).
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Authors
Helmut Fuchs, Valérie Gailus-Durner, Thure Adler, Juan Antonio Aguilar-Pimentel, Lore Becker, Julia Calzada-Wack, Patricia Da Silva-Buttkus, Frauke Neff, Alexander Götz, Wolfgang Hans, Sabine M. Hölter, Marion Horsch, Gabi Kastenmüller,