Vivian Berlin

Executive Director, HMS

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Novel lipid hormone for identifying and treating metabolic disease

Scientists in the Harvard School of Public Health have identified fatty acid C16:1n7-palmitoleate, a novel signaling lipid produced by adipose tissue, that protects mice from the detrimental effects of long-term consumption of high-fat diets. They…

Investigators

  • Gokhan S. Hotamisligil
  • Dariush Mozaffarian
  • Haiming Cao

Invention

Modulating gene activity on chondrocytes

Transgenic mice were generated in which the regulatory sequences for the Col2a1 gene were used to drive expression of Cre recombinase in chondrocytes. The strain initiates Cre-mediated recombination predominantly in immature chondrocytes and the…

Investigators

  • Andrew P. McMahon
  • Fanxin Long

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L7Cre Transgenic Mice

Hemizygous mice are viable, fertile, normal in size, and do not display any gross physical or behavioral abnormalities. Cre activity is observed in parasagittal domains of the cerebellum beginning at embryonic day 17 (E17). At E19, low level…

Investigators

  • Andrew P. McMahon

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Wnt7bc3 LoxP Targeted Mutation Mice

Mice homozygous for the Wnt7bc3 allele are viable and fertile, with loxP sites flanking exon 3 of the targeted gene. When bred to mice that express Cre recombinase, the resulting offspring will have this region deleted in the cre-expressing…

Investigators

  • Douglas Melton

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Shh Knock Out Mice

Mice homozygous for the Shhtm1Amc targeted mutation display early defects in the establishment and maintenance of midline structures. These defects result from the critical role the Sonic hedgehog (Shh) gene plays in the patterning of vertebrate…

Investigators

  • Andrew P. McMahon

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gene trap ROSA 26 Targeted Mutation Mice

These mice contain a sequence encoding an intracellular portion of the mouse Notch1 gene (amino acids 1749-2293), but lacking the c-terminal PEST domain, and Green Fluorescent Protein, GFP, inserted into the GT(ROSA)26Sor locus. Expression of the…

Investigators

  • Douglas Melton

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Wnt11-myrTagRFP-IRES-CE Transgenic Mice

These Wnt11-myrTagRFP-IRES-CE mutant mice have a tamoxifen inducible Cre-mediated recombination system and express the Tag-RFPT variant of Red Fluorescent Protein under the direction of the mouse Wnt11, wingless-related MMTV integration site 11,…

Investigators

  • Andrew P. McMahon

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Pax4-cre Transgenic Mice

Pax4-cre transgenic mice have the mouse paired box gene 4 (Pax4) promoter directing expression of an enhanced green fluorescent protein fused to a Tet-off cassette (EGFP/tTA). The transgene also contains a tetracycline-responsive element with a CMV…

Investigators

  • Douglas Melton

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Cldn6CIHV Targeted Mutation Mice

In this strain, the Cldn6CIHV allele replaces the entire coding region of the claudin 6 (Cldn6) locus with a CreERT2 fusion protein, an internal ribosome entry site (IRES), and a histone H2B-Venus fluorescent protein. This abolishes gene expression.…

Investigators

  • Douglas Melton

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Sox2-cre Transgenic Mice

The Sox2Cre transgene was designed with 12.5 kb of upstream regulatory sequence from the mouse Sox2 locus (SRY-box containing gene 2), a chicken _-actin intron, a Cre recombinase gene, and a rabbit _-globin poly(A) sequence. This transgene was…

Investigators

  • Andrew P. McMahon

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