Transgenic Mouse Service


Our contract business is a creation of transgenic mouse by microinjection, mutated embryonic stem (ES) cells by homologous recombination, chimeric mouse by mutated embryonic stem (ES) cells, and vector generation for transgenesis.

¡Creation of transgenic mice
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¡Creation of chimeras
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¡Creation of mutated ES cells
C57BL/6N, and C57BL/6J-derived ES cells are also available
¡Creation of vector (for transgenesis, targeting vector)

Formulation of vector is also possible

¡Transition of actual number of creation
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
Transgenic mice
36
38
26
39
29
Chimera mice
26
28
35
27
24
Mutated embryo-stem cells
8
8
10
7
8
Vectors
-
-
-
9
28
Total
70
74
71
82
89

Requests from outside University of Tsukuba

Honda S, Kurita N, Miyamoto A, Cho Y, Usui K, Takeshita K, Takahashi S, Yasui T, Kikutani H, Kinoshita T, Fujita T, Tahara-Hanaoka S, Shibuya K, Shibuya A. Enhanced humoral immune responses against T-independent antigens in Fc alpha/muR-deficient mice. Proc Natl Acad Sci . 106, 11230-11235, 2009.
Sakurai T, Nagata R, Yamanaka A, Kawamura H, Tsujino N, Muraki Y, Kageyama H, Kunita S, Takahashi S, Goto K, Koyama Y, Shioda S, Yanagisawa M. Input of orexin/hypocretin neurons revealed by a genetically encoded tracer in mice. Neuron. 46, 297-308, 2005.
Muto A, Tashiro S, Nakajima O, Hoshino H, Takahashi S, Sakoda E, Ikebe D, Yamamoto M, Igarashi K. The transcriptional programme of antibody class switching involves the repressor Bach2. Nature. 429, 566-571, 2004.