Guide to Techniques in Mouse Development, Part A

Philippe Soriano,is Professor of Cell, Developmental & Regenerative Biology and Professor of Oncological Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY, USA

• 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