This volume comprehensively covers new technologies and methodologies that have appeared for the study of mouse development.
First of a 2 part update of volume 225, Guide to Techniques in Mouse Development, edited by P.M. Wassarman and M.L. DePamphilis and published in 1993
Comprehensively covers:
new techniques for the cryopreservation of gametes and embryos
production of transgenic and null (knockout) animals (use of ES cells)
generation of conditional/inducible mutant animals
use of gene-trap mutagenesis
analysis of allele-specific expression
use of new reporter constructs
humanizing of transgenic animals
transcript profiling of mouse development, imaging of mouse development
rederivation of animals and use of mouse genomics
Guide to Techniques in Mouse Development, Part A. Pt.A: Mice, Embryos, and Cells
Table of contents
Section I. General Resources 1. A survey of internet resources for mouse development Thomas L. Saunders
Section II. Handling Mouse Lines 2. Transport of mouse lines by shipment of live embryos Kevin A. Kelley 3. Strategies and considerations for distributing and recovering mouse lines Yubin Du, Wen Xie, and Chengyu Liu 4. Archiving and distributing mouse lines by sperm cryopreservation, IVF, and embryo transfer Hideko Takahashi and Chengyu Liu
Section III. Gametes and Embryos 5. Isolation and manipulation of mouse gametes and embryos Eveline S. Litscher and Paul M. Wassarman 6. Cryopreservation of mouse gametes and embryos Carlisle P. Landel 7. Ovarian follicle culture systems for mammals David F. Albertini and Gokhan Akkoyunlu 8. Production of mouse chimaeras by aggregating pluripotent stem cells with embryos Andras Nagy, Kristina Nagy, and Marina Gertsenstein 9. Production of cloned mice from somatic cells, ES cells, and frozen bodies Sayaka Wakayama, Eiji Mizutani, and Teruhiko Wakayama 10. Nuclear transfer in mouse oocytes and embryos Zhiming Han, Yong Cheng, Cheng-Guang Liang, and Keith E. Latham 11. Culture of whole mouse embryos at early post-implantation to organogenesis stages: developmental staging and methods Jaime A. Rivera-Perez, Vanessa Jones, and Patrick P. L. Tam 12. In utero and ex utero surgery on rodent embryos Valerie Ngo-Muller and Ken Mueoka
Section IV. Fertilization 13. Enhancement of IVF in the mouse by zona-drilling Kevin A. Kelley 14. ICSI in the mouse Paula Stein and Richard M. Schultz
Section V. ES and iPS Cells 15. A simple procedure for the efficient derivation of mouse ES cells Esther Wong, Kenneth Ban, Rafidah Mutalif, Nancy A. Jenkins, Neal G. Copeland, and Colin L. Stewart 16. Producing fully ES cell-derived mice from 8-cell stage embryo injections Thomas M. DeChiara, William T. Poueymirou, Wojtek Auerbach, David Frendewey, George D. Yancopoulos, and David M. Valenzuela 17. The loss-of-allele assay for ES cell screening and mouse genotyping David Frendewey, Rostislav Chernomorsky, Lakeisha Esau, Jinsop Om, Yingzi Xue, Andrew J. Murphy, George D. Yancopoulos, and David M. Valenzuela 18. Induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells Holm Zaehres, Jeong Beom Kim, and Hans R. Schöler
Section VI. Imaging Mouse Development 19. Imaging mouse embryonic development Ryan S. Udan and Mary E. Dickinson 20. Imaging mouse development with confocal time-lapse microscopy Sonja Nowotschin, Anna Ferrer-Vaquer, and Anna-Katerina Hadjantonakis 21. Ultrasound and magnetic resonance microimaging of mouse development Brian J. Nieman and Daniel H. Turnbull
Section VII. Hematopoiesis 22. Use of transgenic fluorescent reporter mouse lines to monitor hematopoietic and erythroid development during embryogenesis Stuart T. Fraser, Joan Isern, and Margaret H. Baron 23. Identification and in vivo analysis of murine hematopoietic stem cells Serine Avagyan, Yacine M. Amrani, and Hans-Willem Snoeck