Constitutive Gs activation using a single-construct tetracycline-inducible expression system in embryonic stem cells and mice

Edward C. Hsiao1,2, Trieu Nguyen1, Jennifer K. Ng1, Mark J. Scott1, Wei Chun Chang3, Hengameh Zahed4,5, Bruce R. Conklin6,1
1Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, San Francisco, USA
2Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, USA
3Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco, USA
4Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program, University of California, San Francisco, USA
5Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease, San Francisco, USA
6Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, USA

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