Model Description: These mice carry loxP sites flanking target exons of Arx gene. When crossed with a Cre recombinase-expressing strain, this strain is useful in eliminating tissue-specific conditional expression of Arx gene.
Official Symbol: Arx
NCBI ID: 11878
MGI ID: 1097716
Ensembl ID: ENSMUSG00000035277
Pubmed: Arx
Human Ortholog: ARX
Nomenclature
C57BL/6JSmoc-Arxem1(flox)Smoc
Exon
Exon s
Disease
Early Infantile Epileptic Encephalopathy
Disease
Nervous System Disease
KI/KO Gene
Arx
Notes
Note: The expected phenotype(s) may be observed in the above-mentioned mice that bred with mI56i-cre mice.
Marsh E, Fulp C, Gomez E, Nasrallah I, Minarcik J, Sudi J, Christian SL, Mancini G, Labosky P, Dobyns W, Brooks-Kayal A, Golden JA, Targeted loss of Arx results in a developmental epilepsy mouse model and recapitulates the human phenotype in heterozygous females. Brain. 2009 Jun;132(Pt 6):1563-76