Molecular Embryology: Methods and Protocols [Hardcover]

In Molecular Embryology: Methods and Protocols, Second Edition, expert investigators provide a comprehensive guide to the cutting-edge methods used across the dramatically growing field of vertebrate molecular embryology. Time-tested techniques take advantage of the most commonly used vertebrate experimental models: murine embryos for their genetics, chick embryos for in vivo manipulation, zebrafish for mutagenesis, amphibian embryos, and nonvertebrate chordates. The second edition collects classic protocols which have become standard techniques in the laboratory and presents them in a complementary fashion with novel and emerging approaches, allowing researcher to become more familiar with commonly studied embryos used in biomedical research. Insightful to the experienced professional, Molecular Embryology: Methods and Protocols, Second Edition, presents cutting-edge findings of perhaps the greatest period in growth and productivity in the field of developmental biology.

The Mouse Embryo.- The Mouse as a Developmental Model.- Culture of Postimplantation Mouse Embryos.- Organ Culture in the Analysis of Tissue Interactions.- Treatment of Mice with Retinoids In Vivo and In Vitro.- Analysis of Skeletal Ontogenesis through Differential Staining of Bone and Cartilage.- Cell Grafting and Labeling in Postimplantation Mouse Embryos.- Production of Transgenic Rodents by the Microinjection of Cloned DNA into Fertilized One-Celled Eggs.- Cre Recombinase Mediated Alterations of the Mouse Genome Using Embryonic Stem Cells.- Gene Trapping in Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells.- Application of lacZ Transgenic Mice to Cell Lineage Studies.- Transgenic RNA Interference to Investigate Gene Function in the Mouse.- Mouse Primordial Germ Cells.- Gene Transfer to the Rodent Embryo by Retroviral Vectors.- The Chicken Embryo.- The Avian Embryo.- Chick Embryos.- New Culture.- EC Culture.- Grafting Hensen's Node.- Grafting of Somites.- MicrlÃ3