EXPERIMENTAL MODELS

Contributor Information
- Name Devanand Sarkar
- Institute Virginia Commonwealth University
Tool Details
- Tool name: AEG-1?HEP mouse
- Tool type: Experimental models
- Tool sub-type: Mouse
- Disease: Hepatocellular Carcinogenesis; Chronic Inflammation
- Model: Conditional KO
- Conditional: Yes
- Conditional description: Conditional AEG-1ÎHEP knockout after single i.p. injection of 10Âľg/gm body weight of N-nitrosodiethylamine (DEN) given at 14 days of age followed by 0.05% phenobarbital daily in drinking water.
- Genetic background and cross history: Floxed AEG-1 mice (AEG-1fl/fl) in C57BL/6 background were crossed with Alb/Cre (B6.Cg-Tg(Alb-cre)21Mgn/J)
- Phenotype: Hepatocellular Carcinogenesis
- Zygosity: unknown
- Strain: C57BL/6
- Description: Mouse model with conditional AEG-1 knockout in hepatocytes
- Research area: Cancer; Cell signaling and signal transduction; Genetics; Immunology
- Production details: Floxed AEG-1 mice (AEG-1fl/fl) in C57BL/6 background were crossed with Alb/Cre (B6.Cg-Tg(Alb-cre)21Mgn/J)
- For Research Use Only
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References
- • Robertson et al. 2018. Cancer Res. 78(22):6436-6446. PMID: 30181179.
- • Astrocyte Elevated Gene-1 Regulates Macrophage Activation in Hepatocellular Carcinogenesis.