These transgenic mice carry the Cre recombinase gene under the control of the rat nestin promoter. When crossed with a strain carrying a gene flanked by loxP sites, partial deletion of the loxP-flanked allele occurs before embryonic day 10.5 and is detectable in all adult organs examined including germ line cells. Because of the partial deletion, these balancer1 cre transgenic mice, as well as the balancer2 cre transgenic mice (Stock No. <a href="https://www.jax.org/strain/002859">002859</a>), may be used to generate mosaic mice consisting of cells that are either wildtype or mutant for the gene of interest. The proportion of cells that carry the mutant allele varies between tissues and between individual mice. In cases where deletion of a particular gene is lethal, the generation of mosaic mice using these strains can bypass lethality in some mosaic individuals. The balancer2 line induces more variable deletion of loxP-flanked genes than the balancer1 line.

These bal1 mice express a transgene containing Cre recombinase under the control of the rat nestin promoter.

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