Generation of a tamoxifen inducibleTnnt2MerCreMerknock-in mouse model for cardiac studies

Cardiac fibrosis in mice expressing an inducible myocardial-specific Cre driver

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Moderate and high amounts of tamoxifen in  MHC-MerCreMer mice induce a DNA damage response, leading to heart failure and death

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Myocardin regulates BMP10 expression and is required for heart development

(2012) Jianhe Huang et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL INVESTIGATION

Systolic dysfunction in cardiac-specific ligand-inducible MerCreMer transgenic mice

(2011) Michael E. Hall et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-HEART AND CIRCULATORY PHYSIOLOGY

Cre-loxP DNA recombination is possible with only minimal unspecific transcriptional changes and without cardiomyopathy in Tg(αMHC-MerCreMer) mice

(2010) Karina Hougen et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-HEART AND CIRCULATORY PHYSIOLOGY

Cardiomyocyte cell cycle control and growth estimation in vivo—an analysis based on cardiomyocyte nuclei

(2010) Stuart Walsh et al.   CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH

Avoidance of Transient Cardiomyopathy in Cardiomyocyte-Targeted Tamoxifen-Induced MerCreMer Gene Deletion Models

(2009) Norimichi Koitabashi et al.   CIRCULATION RESEARCH

A robust and high-throughput Cre reporting and characterization system for the whole mouse brain

(2009) Linda Madisen et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Differential interactions of thin filament proteins in two cardiac troponin T mouse models of hypertrophic and dilated cardiomyopathies

(2008) Raffaella Lombardi et al.   CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH

Targeted disruption of the cardiac troponin T gene causes sarcomere disassembly and defects in heartbeat within the early mouse embryo

(2008) Kiyomasa Nishii et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

With great power comes great responsibility: Using mouse genetics to study cardiac hypertrophy and failure

(2008) Jeffery D. Molkentin et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR CARDIOLOGY

The Role of Cardiac Troponin T Quantity and Function in Cardiac Development and Dilated Cardiomyopathy

(2008) Ferhaan Ahmad et al.   PLoS One