Animal Models

This list was assembled by Frank Kirchhoff, University of Saarland, Homburg, Germany.

Reporter Mice

Gene Type Reporter Reference available from / in use by
Astrocytes
Aldh1l1 BAC EGFP Cahoy et al.,2008;  John D. Cahoy, Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University, Stanford, USA
jcahoy@stanford.edu.
Yang et al., 2011 Jeffrey D. Rothstein Department of Neurology and Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
jrothstein@jhmi.edu 
Blbp Mouse 1.6 kb GFP Anthony et al., 2004 Nathaniel Heintz
Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10021 USA
heintz@rockefeller.edu
Blbp BAC EGFP Schmid et al., 2006 E. S. Anton
Neuroscience Center and Department of Cell and Molecular Physiology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
anton@med.unc.edu
Blbp BAC EYFP Schmid et al., 2006 E. S. Anton
Neuroscience Center and Department of Cell and Molecular Physiology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
anton@med.unc.edu
Blbp BAC DsRed2 Schmid et al., 2006 E. S. Anton
Neuroscience Center and Department of Cell and Molecular Physiology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
anton@med.unc.edu
Cx30 Knock-in lacZ Teubner et al., 2003 Klaus Willeke
Institut für Genetik, Abteilung Molekulargenetik, Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany
genetik@uni-bonn.de;
Martin Theis, University of Bonn, Germany
martin.theis@ukb.uni-bonn.de
Cx43 Knock-in lacZ Theis et al., 2003 Martin Theis, University of Bonn, Germany
martin.theis@ukb.uni-bonn.de
Gfap Mouse + 2.0 kb 5′ lacZ Mucke et al.,1991 Lennart Mucke
Department of Neuropharmacology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California 92037,
lmucke@gladstone.ucsf.edu
Gfap Mouse gene(ATG/ lacZ Johnson et al.,1995 Lennart Mucke
TTGmutant) Department of Neuropharmacology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California 92037,
lmucke@gladstone.ucsf.edu
Gfap Mouse 12.0 kb Luciferase Zhu et al., 2004 Anthony F. Purchio
Xenogen Corporation, 860 Atlantic Avenue, Alameda, CA 94501, USA
tpuchio@xenogen.com
Gfap Mouse 2.6 kb EGFP Suzuki et al., 2003 Seiji Shioda
Department of Anatomy, Showa University School of Medicine, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 142-8555, Japan
shioda@med.showa-u.ac.jp
Gfap Mouse 2.5 kb EGFP Kuzmanovic et al., 2003 Milena Kuzmanovic, Department of Ophthalmology, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611; milena@northwestern.edu
Gfap Mouse 2.0 kb lacZ Galou et al., 1994 M. Galou
Unité de Biochimie des Antigènes, Institut Pasteur, 25 rue du Dr Roux, 75724 Paris Cedex 15, France
paulin@ccr.jussieu.fr
Gfap Human 2.2 kb lacZ Brenner et al., 1994 Michael Brenner
Laboratory of Molecular Biology, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health,
Bethesda, Maryland 20892
aaron@nrc.uab.edu; 
Gfap Human 2.2 kb S65T-GFP Zhuo et al., 1997 Albee Messing
Department of Pathobiological Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, 53706
messing@waisman.wisc.edu
Gfap Human 2.2 kb EGFP Nolte et al., 2001, Hirrlinger et al., 2005 Helmut Kettenmann
Max-Delbrück-Centrum für Molekulare Medizin, Zelluläre Neurowissenschaften,
13122 Berlin-Buch, Germany
(hketten@mdc-berlin.de);
Frank Kirchhoff, University of Saarland, Homburg, Germany
frank.kirchhoff@uks.eu
Gfap Human 2.2 kb AmCyanI Hirrlinger et al., 2005 Frank Kirchhoff, University of Saarland, Homburg, Germany
frank.kirchhoff@uks.eu
Gfap Human 2.2 kb mRFP1 Hirrlinger et al., 2005 Frank Kirchhoff, University of Saarland, Homburg, Germany
frank.kirchhoff@uks.eu
Gfap Human 2.2 kb ECFP Hirrlinger et al., 2005 Frank Kirchhoff, University of Saarland, Homburg, Germany
frank.kirchhoff@uks.eu
Gfap Human 2.2 kb dsRed Noraberg et al., 2007 Jens Noraberg
Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark. jnoraberg@health.sdu.dk
Gfap Human 2.2 kb tet-Off Casper et al., 2006 Ken D. McCarthy
CB 7365, Department of Pharmacology, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
ken_mccarthy@med.unc.edu
Gfap Human 1.8 kb lacZ Andrae et al., 2001 Monica Nistér
Department of Genetics and Pathology, Rudbeck Laboratory, University Hospital, Uppsala University,  Uppsala, Sweden
monica.nister@genpat.uu.se
Glast Knock-in Cre-GFP Mori et al., 2006 Magdalena Götz
Institute of Stem Cell Research, GSF-National Research Center for Environment and Health, Neuherberg/Munich, Germany
(magdalena.goetz@gsf.de)
Glast BAC dsRed Regan et al., 2007 Dr. Jeffrey D. Rothstein
Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21287, jrothstein@jhmi.edu;
Glast BAC GFP Anthony and Heintz 2008 Todd E Anthony
Laboratory of Molecular Biology, the Rockefeller University, New York, New York 10021, USA
todd22@caltech.edu
Glast BAC EMTB-GFP Eom et al., 2011 E.S. Anton
UNC Neuroscience Center and The Department of Cell and Molecular Physiology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, USA.
anton@med.unc.edu
Gli1 Knock-in EGFP Garcia et al., 2010 Alexandra L. Joyner, Developmental Biology Program, Sloan-Kettering Institute, New York, NY 10065
joynera@mskcc.org
Glt1 BAC EGFP Regan et al., 2007 Dr. Jeffrey D. Rothstein
Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21287, jrothstein@jhmi.edu;
Glt1 8.3kb tdTomato Yang et al., 2011  Jeffrey D. Rothstein
Department of Neurology and Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205
jrothstein@jhmi.edu
Kir4.1 BAC EGFP Tang et al., 2009 Paulo Kofuji
Department of Neuroscience, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455
kofuj001@umn.edu
S100β Mouse 4.8 kb EGFP Vives et al., 2003 Catherine Legraverend
U469 INSERM, Centre CNRS-INSERM de Pharmacologie et d’Endocrinologie, Montpellier cedex 05, France legrav@montp.inserm.fr
S100β Rat 9.0kb EGFP Itakura et al., 2007 K. Inoue,
Department of Regulatory Biology, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University, Saitama 338-8570, Japan
kininoue@seitai.saitama-u.ac.jp.
S100β Human 9.4 kb EGFP Zuo et al., 2004 Wesley J. Thompson
Section of Neurobiology C0920, University of Texas, Austin, TX
78712
wes@mail.utexas.edu..
S100β Human 9.4 kb dsRed Windus et a., 2007 James A. St John
National Centre for Adult Stem Cell Research, Eskitis Institute, Griffith University, Brisbane 4111, Queensland, Australia
j.stjohn@griffith.edu.au
S100β Human 9.4 kb YC 3.60 cameleon Atkin et al., 2009 James T. Russell
Section on Cell Biology and Signal Transduction, NICHD, NIH, Bethesda, MD, United States
james@helix.nih.gov
Oligodendrocytes
Cx47 Knock-in EGFP Odermatt et al., 2003 Dr. Klaus Willecke
Institut für Genetik, Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany
genetik@uni-bonn.de.
Cnp Mouse 4.0 kb lacZ Gravel et al., 1998 P.E. Braun
Department of Biochemistry, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3G 1Y6
braun@medcor.mcgill.ca
Cnp Mouse 4.0 kb lacZ-neo Chandross et al.,1999 Dr. Karen J. Chandross, National Institutes of Health, National Institute for Neurological Diseases and Stroke, Laboratory of Developmental Neurogenetics, Bethesda, MD 20892.
HudsonL1@od.nih.gov
Cnp Mouse 4.0 kb EGFP Belachew et al., 2001 Dr. Shibeshih Belachew
Laboratory of Cellular and Synaptic Neurophysiology
NICHD, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892-4495 (USA)
sbelachew@ulg.ac.be
Cnp Mouse 4.0 kb // Yuan et al., 2002 Vittorio Gallo
Center for Neuroscience Research, Children’s Research Institute, Children’s National Medical Center, N.W., Washington, DC 20010-2970
vgallo@cnmcresearch.org
Mbp Mouse 1.3 kb lacZ Turnley et al., 1991, PMID:1717849 Ann M. Turnley,
Neural Regeneration Laboratory, Centre for Neuroscience, University of Melbourne; turnley@unimelb.edu.au
Mbp Mouse 1.9 kb lacZ Gow et al., 1992 Brookdale Center for Molecular Biology, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York 10029-6574 .
robert.lazzarini@mssm.edu
Mbp Mouse 3.1 kb lacZ Foran and Peterson 1992 Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, and Molecular Oncology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; alan.peterson@mcgill.ca.
Mbp Human 0.75 kb lacZ Wrabetz et al., 1998 Lawrence Wrabetz
DIBIT and Department of Neurology, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, 20132 Milano, Italy
wrabetl@dibit.hsr.it
Mbp Mouse, diverse fragments lacZ Forghani et al., 2001 A. Peterson
Laboratory of Developmental Biology, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Molecular Oncology Group H-5, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
alan@devbiol2.molonc.mcgill.ca
Mobp BAC EGFP Gensat
Plp1 Mouse 2,4 kb + exon1 + intron1 + part of exon 2 lacZ Whight et al., 1993 Mental Retardation Research Center, UCLA Medical Center 90024.
mackliw@ccf.org
Plp1 Mouse 2,4 kb + exon1 + intron1 + part of exon 3 shble-lacZ Spassky et al., 1998 B. Zalc
Biologie des Interactions Neurones/Glie, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U-495 Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, 75651 Paris Cedex 13, France. bernard.zalc@upmc.fr
Plp1 Mouse 2,4 kb + exon1 + intron1 + part of exon 4 shble-lacZ+ EGFP Sobottka et al., 2011 Norbert Goebels
Department of Neurology, Heinrich-Heine-University, Moorenstrasse 5, Düsseldorf, Germany
norbert.goebels@med.uni-duesseldorf.de
Plp1 Mouse 2,4 kb + exon1 (ATG to GAG mutant) intron1 EGFP Mallon et al., 2002 Wendy B. Macklin
Department of Neurosciences, NC30, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH 44195
mackliw@ccf.org.
Plp1 Mouse 2,4 kb + exon1 + intron1 + part of exon 5 S65T-GFP Fuss et al., 2000 Babette Fuss, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va.
bfuss@vcu.edu  
Plp1 Mouse 2,4 kb + exon1 + intron1 + part of exon 5 dsRed Hirrlinger et al., 2005 Frank Kirchhoff
Department of Molecular Physiology, University of Saarland, Homburg, Germany
frank.kirchhoff@uks.eu
Plp1 Mouse 2,4 kb + exon1 + intron1 + part of exon 6 ECFP unpublished Frank Kirchhoff
Department of Molecular Physiology, University of Saarland, Homburg, Germany
frank.kirchhoff@uks.eu
Plp1 Different fragments EGFP/lacZ Tuason et al., 2008 Alan Peterson
Molecular Oncology Group, Royal Victoria Hospital, McGill University,  Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 1A1. alan.peterson@mcgill.ca
NG2 glia / Oligodendrocyte progenitors
NG2 BAC dsRed Ziskin et al., 2007 Zhu et al., 2008 Dwight E. Bergles
Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
dbergles@jhmi.edu).
NG2 Knock-in EYFP Karram et al.,2008 Jacqueline Trotter
Molecular Cell Biology, Department
of Biology, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, 55128 Mainz,
Germany
trotter@uni-mainz.de
Olig1 Knock-in lacZ Zhou and Anderson ,2002 David J. Anderson
Division of Biology 216-76, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
wuwei@caltech.edu
Olig2 Knock-in GFP Zhou and Anderson, 2002 David J. Anderson
Division of Biology 216-76, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
wuwei@caltech.edu
Pdgfra Knock-in GFP Hamilton et al.,2003 Philippe Soriano
Program in Developmental Biology and Division of Basic Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109
psoriano@fhcrc.org.
Sox10 BAC Venus Shibata et al.,2010 Shinsuke Shibata
Department of Physiology, Keio University School of Medicine, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-8582, Japan
shibata@2001.jukuin.keio.ac.jp
Microglia
Cd11b Mouse1.7kb lacZ Dziennis et al., 1995 Daniel G. Tenen
Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Hospital, Boston. MA 02215
dtenen@bidmc.harvard.edu
Cd11c Fragment EYFP Lindquist et al., 2004 Michael L Dustin
Program in Molecular Pathogenesis and Department of Pathology, Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York 10016, USA.
dustin@saturn.med.nyu.edu
Csf1r Mouse 3.5 kb 5′ + intron 2 EGFP Sasmono et al., 2003 David A. Hume
Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Q4072, Australia
d.hume@imb.uq.edu.au
Cx3cr1 Knock-in EGPP Jung et al.,2000 Steffen Jung
Molecular Pathogenesis Program, Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, New York University Medical Center, New York, NY 10016.
jung@saturn.med.nyu.edu.
Weizmann Institute of Science
Department of Immunology
s.jung@weizmann.ac.il 
Fcer1g BAC EGFP Gensat
Iba1 Mouse1.9kb EGFP Hirasawa et al.,2005 Shinichi Kohsaka
Department of Neurochemistry,
National Institute of Neuroscience, Kodaira, Tokyo
187-8502, Japan.
kohsaka@ncnp.go.jp 
Lyz2 Knock-in EGFP Faust et al.,2000 Thomas Graf
Albert Einstein College of Medicine,  Bronx, NY 10461
graf@aecom.yu.edu.
Ependymal cells
Cx45 BAC EGFP von Maltzahn et al.,2009 Klaus Willecke
Institute of Genetics, Division of Molecular Genetics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
genetik@uni-bonn.de
Cxcr4 BAC EGFP Tran et al.,2007 Richard J. Miller
Dept. of Molecular Pharmacology and Biological Chemistry, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago IL 60611
r-miller10@northwestern.edu
Foxj1 Human1.2kb EGFP Ostrowski et al.,2003 Lawrence E. Ostrowski
Cystic Fibrosis/Pulmonary Research and Treatment Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7248, USA
ostro@med.unc.edu
Foxj1 Human1.2kb IRES-EGFP Meletis et al.,2008 Jonas Frisén
Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
jonas.frisen@ki.se
Nes 2nd intronic enhancer EGFP Kawaguchi et al.,2001,  PMID:11178865 Dr. Hideyuki Okano, Department of Physiology, Keio University School of Medicine, 35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku, Tokyo 160-8582, Japan.
hidokano@sc.itc.keio.ac.jp
Sox9 BAC EGFP Gensat
Neural stem cells
Nestin 5.8 kb of promoter + 1.8 kb of intron 2 EGFP Mignone et al., 2004 Grigori Enikolopov
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724
enik@cshl.edu

Cre-Lines

Line Type Reference available from/in use by
Astrocytes
BIbp-Cre Mouse 1.6 kb Anthony et al., 2004 Nathaniel Heintz
Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10021 USA
heintz@rockefeller.edu
Cx30-CreERT2 BAC Slezak et al.. 2007 Frank W. Pfrieger
Department of Neurotransmission/Neuroendocrine Secretion, Institute of Cellular and Integrative Neuroscience (INCI), 67084 Strasbourg Cedex, France
fw-pfrieger@gmx.de
Cx43-CreERT Knock-in Eckardt et al.  2004 Thomas Ott
Institut für Genetik, Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany. Martin Theis, University of Bonn, Germany
martin.theis@ukb.uni-bonn.de
Fgfr3-iCre-ERT2 PAC Young et al, 2010 William D. Richardson
The Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
w.richardson@ucl.ac.uk
hGfap-Cre Human 2.2 kb with insulators Casper and McCarthy, 2006 Ken D. McCarthy
CB 7365, Department of Pharmacology, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
ken_mccarthy@med.unc.edu
hGfap-Cre Human 2.2 kb Zhuo et al., 2001 Albee Messing
Waisman Center, University
of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53705-2280
messing@waisman.wisc.edu
hGfap-Cre Human 2.2 kb Bajenaru et al, 2002 David H. Gutmann
Department of Neurology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110. gutmannd@neuro.wustl.edu.
hGfap-Cre Human 2.2 kb Peng et al., 2010 Model Animal Research Center and Moe Key Laboratory of Model Animal for Disease Study, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210061
zhums@nju.edu.cn
hGfap-CreER™ Human 2.2 kb Chow et al., 2008 Suzanne J. Baker
Department of Developmental Neurobiology, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105 USA
suzanne.baker@stjude.org.
hGfap-CreERT2 Human 2.2 kb Casper et al., 2007 Ken D. McCarthy
Department of Pharmacology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
ken_mccarthy@med.unc.edu
hGfap-CreERT2 Human 2.2 kb Ganat et al., 2006 Flora M. Vaccarino
Child Study Center, New Haven, CT 06520
flora.vaccarino@yale.edu
hGfap-CreERT2 Human 2.2 kb Hirrlinger et al., 2006 Frank Kirchhoff, University of Saarland, Homburg, Germany
Frank.kirchhoff@uks.eu
hGfap- Human 2.2 kb Barton et al., 2002 Seung P. Kwak
Wyeth Ayerst Research, Department of Molecular Genetics, CN8000, Princeton, NJ 08543-8000, USA
kwaks@war.wyeth.com
hGfap-CreERT2 Human 2.2 kb Casper et al., 2007 Ken D. McCarthy
Department of Pharmacology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
ken_mccarthy@med.unc.edu
hGfap-MerCreMer Human 2.2 kb Casper et al., 2007 Ken D. McCarthy
Department of Pharmacology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
ken_mccarthy@med.unc.edu
hGfap-CrePR2 Human 2.2 kb Casper et al., 2008 Ken D. McCarthy
CB 7365, Department of Pharmacology, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
ken_mccarthy@med.unc.edu
hGfap-tetO1-tTA (rat) Human 2.2 kb Barton et al., 2002 Seung P. Kwak
Wyeth Ayerst Research, Department of Molecular Genetics, CN8000, Princeton, NJ 08543-8000, USA
kwaks@war.wyeth.com
hGfap-tTA Human 2.2 kb Lin et al., 2004 Dr. Brian Popko
Jack Miller Center for Peripheral Neuropathy, Department of Neurology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637
bpopko@neurology.bsd.uchicago.edu;
mGfap-Cre Mouse gene (ATG/TTG mutant) Marino et al., 2000 Anton Berns
Division of Molecular Genetics and Centre of Biomedical Genetics, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, 1066CX Amsterdam, The Netherlands
tberns@nki.nl
mGfap-Cre Mouse gene (ATG/TTG mutant) Kwon et al., 2001 Suzanne J. Baker
Department of Developmental Neurobiology, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee 38105, USA.
suzanne.baker@stjude.org
mGfap-Cre Mouse gene (ATG/TTG mutant) Garcia et al., 2004 Michael V Sofroniew
Department of Neurobiology and Brain Research Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095-1763, USA.
sofroniew@mednet.ucla.edu
mGfap-Cre Mouse 2.0 kb Casper and McCarthy, 2006 Ken D. McCarthy
CB 7365, Department of Pharmacology, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
ken_mccarthy@med.unc.edu
mGfap tetON Mouse gene (ATG/TTG mutant) Kim et al., 2003 Johnny J. He
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202
jjhe@iupui.edu.
Glast-Cre BAC Anthony and Heintz 2008 Todd E Anthony
Laboratory of Molecular Biology, the Rockefeller University, 1230 York Avenue, New York, New York 10021, USA
todd22@caltech.edu
Glast-Cre Knock-in Mori et al., 2006 Magdalena Götz
Institute of Stem Cell Research, GSF-National Research Center for Environment and Health, Neuherberg/Munich, Germany
magdalena.goetz@gsf.de
Glast-CreERT2 BAC Slezak et al., 2007 Frank W. Pfrieger
Department of Neurotransmission/Neuroendocrine Secretion, Institute of Cellular and Integrative Neuroscience (INCI), Strasbourg Cedex, France
fw-pfrieger@gmx.de
Gli-CreERT2 Mouse 5.6 kb Ahn and Joyner, 2005 Alexandra L. Joyner
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Developmental Genetics Program, Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine and Department of Cell Biology and Department of Physiology and Neuroscience, New York University School of Medicine,  New York, New York 10016, USA
joyner@saturn.med.nyu.edu
S100β-Cre 11.7 kb Tanaka et al., 2008 Shigeyoshi Itohara
Laboratory for Behavioral Genetics, RIKEN Brain Science Institute (BSI), 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
sitohara@brain.riken.jp
Oligodendro­cytes
Cnp-Cre Knock-in Lappe-Siefke et al., 2003  Klaus-Armin Nave
Department of Neurogenetics, Max Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine, D-37075 Goettingen, Germany.
nave@em.mpg.de
Mbp-Cre Mouse 1.3 kb Niwa-Kawakita et al., 2000 Marco Giovannini
INSERM U434, Fondation Jean Dausset-CEPH, Paris, France marco.giovannini@cephb.fr
Mbp-Cre Mouse 5.0 kb Hisahara et al., 2000 Masayuki Miura
Division of Neuroanatomy, Department of Neuroscience, Biomedical Research Center (D–12), Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka 565–0871, Japan
mmiura@nana.med.osaka-u.ac.jp
Mbp-CreERT2 Mouse 1.9 kb Gow. 2011 PMID:21329799 Alexander Gow
Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI 48201 U.S.A.,
agow@med.wayne.edu
Mbp-tTA-CMV-Cre Uschkureit et al.. 2001 PMID:11424193 Wilhelm Stoffel
Laboratory for Molecular Neuroscience, Institute of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
wilhelm.stoffel@uni-koeln.de
MOGi-Cre Knock-in Hovelmeyer et al., 2005 PMID:16237080 Dr. Ari Waisman
I. Medical Department, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz
waisman@uni-mainz.de
PIp1-Cre Mouse 3.7 kb 5′ + exon1 + intron1 Delaunay et al., 2008 (Delaunay et al., 2008) B. Zalc, Biologie des Interactions Neurones/Glie, Inserm Unite´ 711,
Universite´ Pierre et Marie Curie,Hôpital de la Salpêtriére 75651 Paris cedex 13, France
berzalc@ccr.jussieu.fr
PIp1-Cre Mouse 2.4 kb + exon1 (ATG to GAG) + intron1 Michalski et al., 2011 PMID:21572962 Rashimi Kothary
Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
rkothary@ohri.ca
PIp1-Cre Goebbels Sandra, unpublished Sandra Goebbels, Klaus-Armin Nave
Max Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine, Göttingen, Germany
sgoebbels@em.mpg.de 
PIpl-CreERT Mouse 2.4 kb + exon1 + intron1 + part of exon2 Doerflinger et al., 2003 (Doerflinger et al., 2003) Brian Popko
Jack Miller Center for Peripheral
Neuropathy, Department of Neurology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637-1470.
bpopko@neurology.bsd.uchicago.edu 
PIpl-CreERT Mouse 2.4 kb + exon1 + intron1 + part of exon2 Leone et al., 2003 (Leone et al., 2003) Ueli Suter
nstitute of Cell Biology, Department of Biology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Hönggerberg, Zürich, Switzerland
usuter@cell.biol.ethz.ch
NG2 glia/Oligodendrocyte progenitors
Ascl1-CreER™ BAC Battiste et al., 2007 PMID:17166924 Jane E. Johnson
Center for Basic Neuroscience, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
jane.johnson@utsouthwestern.edu
AscI1-CreERT2 Knock-in Kim et al., 2011 PMID:21483754 Jane E. Johnson
Department of Neuroscience, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America
jane.johnson@utsouthwestern.edu
NG2-Cre BAC Zhu et al., 2008 (Zhu et al., 2008) Akiko Nishiyama
Department of Physiology and Neurobiology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269-3156, USA
akiko.nishiyama@uconn.edu
Ng2-CreER™ BAC Zhu et al., 2011 PMID:21266410 Akiko Nishiyama
Department of Physiology and Neurobiology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269-3156, USA
akiko.nishiyama@uconn.edu
NG2-CreERT2 Knock-in Huang et al., unpublished Frank Kirchhoff Frank Kirchhoff
Department of Molecular Physiology, University of Saarland, Homburg, Germany
frank.kirchhoff@uks.eu 
Olig1-Cre Knock-in Lu et al., 2002 PMID:11955448 Charles D. Stiles
Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115 USA
charles_stiles@dfci.harvard.edu
Olig2-CreER™ Knock-in Takebayashi et al., 2002 PMID:12121626 Hirohide Takebayashi
Laboratory of Neural Information, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Myodaiji, Okazaki 444-8585, Japan.
takebaya@lmls.med.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Olig2-tva-Cre Knock-in (IRES-Cre) Schuller et al., 2008 PMID:18691547 David H. Rowitch
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115
rowitchd@peds.ucsf.edu
keith_ligon@dfci.harvard.edu 
Pdgfrα-CreERT2 PAC Rivers et al., 2008 PMID:18849983 William D Richardson
Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK
w.richardson@ucl.ac.uk
Pdgfrα-CreER BAC Kang et al., 2010 PMID:21092857 Dwight E. Bergles
Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland dbergles@jhmi.edu
Microglia
Cd11b-Cre Mouse 1.7 kb Ferron and Vacher, 2005 (Ferron and Vacher, 2005) Jean Vacher
Institut de Recherches Cliniques de Montréal, Québec, Canada
vacherj@ircm.qc.ca
Cd11b-Cre Human 1.7 kb Boillée et al., 2006 (Boillee et al., 2006) Don W. Cleveland
Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0670
 dcleveland@ucsd.edu
F4/80-Cre (Emr1) Knock-in Schaller et al., 2002 PMID:12391169 Klaus Pfeffer
Institute of Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
klaus.pfeffer@lrz.tu-muenchen.de.
LysM-Cre Knock-in Clausen et al., 1999 PMID:10621974 I. Förster
Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene, Technical University of Munich Munich, Germany
i.foerster@lrz.tum.de
Ependymal cells
Foxj1-Cre Human 1.2 kb Zhang et al., 2007 PMID:17255554 Michael J. Holtzman
Washington University School of Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110-1093
holtzman@im.wustl.edu
Foxj1-CreERT2 Human 1.2 kb Meletis et al., 2008 PMID:18651793 Jonas Frisén
Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
jonas.frisen@ki.se
Foxj1-CreERT2 Human 1.1 kb Rawlins et al., 2007 PMID:17194755 Brigid L.M. Hogan
Department of Cell Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710
b.hogan@cellbio.duke.edu
hGfap-Cre Human 2.2 kb Zhuo et al., 2001 (Zhuo et al., 2001) Albee Messing, Waisman Center, Room 713, University
of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53705-2280
messing@waisman.wisc.edu
Neural stem cells
Nes-Cre Rat intronic enhancer Tronche et al., 1999 PMID:10471508 Günther Schütz
Molecular Biology of the Cell I, Deutsches Krebsforschungzentrum, Heidelberg, Germany.
g.schuetz@dkfz-heidelberg.de
Nes-CreER Rat 5.0 kb + intronic enhancer Meletis et al., 2008 PMID:18651793 Jonas Frisén
Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
jonas.frisen@ki.se
Nes-CreERtm Rat 5.0 kb + intronic enhancer Kuo et al., 2006 PMID:17174898 Yuh-Nung Jan
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Departments of Physiology and Biochemistry
YuhNung.Jan@ucsf.edu
Nes-CreERT2 Mouse 5.6 kb Imayoshi et al., 2006 PMID:16652364 Ryoichiro Kageyama
Institute for Virus Research, Kyoto University, Shogoin-Kawahara, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan
rkageyam@virus.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Nes-CreERT2 Mouse 11.7 kb Lagace et al., 2007 PMID:18003841 Dr. Amelia J. Eisch
Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390-9070
amelia.eisch@utsouthwestern.edu

Floxed lines to express genetically encoded indicators and effectors

gene locus promoter reference floxed
Rosa26 ROSA26 EYFP (Srinivas et al., 2001) loxP flanked neomycin-resistance and four SV40 polyadenylation sequences Frank Costantini
Department of Genetics and Development, Columbia University, New York, USA
fdc3@columbia.edu
Rosa26 ROSA26 ECFP (Srinivas et al., 2001) loxP flanked neomycin-resistance and four SV40 polyadenylation sequences Frank Costantini
Department of Genetics and Development, Columbia University, New York, USA,
fdc3@columbia.edu
Rosa26 ROSA26 LacZ Philippe Soriano (1999) Generalized lacZ expression with the ROSA26 Cre reporter strain. Nature Genetics  21, 70 – 71, doi:10.1038/5007 loxP flanked neomycin-resistance and four SV40 polyadenylation sequences Philippe Soriano
Program in Developmental Biology, Division of Basic Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington 98109, USA
psoriano@fhcrc.org
Rosa26 CAG tdTomato (Madisen et al., 2010) stop cassette Honkui Zeng
Allen Institute for Brain Science, Seattle, Washington, USA
WPRE for mRNA stabilization hongkuiz@alleninstitute.org
Rosa26 CAG EYFP (Madisen et al., 2010) stop cassette Honkui Zeng
Allen Institute for Brain Science, Seattle, Washington, USA
hongkuiz@alleninstitute.org
Rosa26 CAG EYFP (Madisen et al., 2010) stop cassette Honkui Zeng
WPRE for mRNA stabilization Allen Institute for Brain Science, Seattle, Washington, USA
hongkuiz@alleninstitute.org
Rosa26 CAG ZsGreen (Madisen et al., 2010) stop cassette Honkui Zeng
WPRE for mRNA stabilization Allen Institute for Brain Science, Seattle, Washington, USA
hongkuiz@alleninstitute.org
Rosa26 CAG TNXXL Unpublished stop cassette
Frank Kirchhoff/Helmut Kettenmann
Rosa26 CAG GCaMP3 PMID:22378886 stop cassette Tsai-Wen Chen, Janelia Farm Research Campus, HHMI, Ashburn, VA, USA
chent@janelia.hhmi.org
WPRE for mRNA stabilization Hongkui Zeng, Allen Institute for Brain Science, Seattle, WA, USA
hongkuiz@alleninstitute.org. 
Rosa26 CAG ChR2-tdTomato/ PMID:22446880 stop cassette Hongkui Zeng, Allen Institute for Brain Science, Seattle, WA, USA
ChR2-EYFP/
halorhodopsin eNpHR3.0/ WPRE for mRNA stabilization hongkuiz@alleninstitute.org
archaerhodopsin Arch-ER2
HRPT CAG Chop2YFP Unpublished Frank Kirchhoff/Helmut Kettenmann stop cassette

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