PuSH - Publication Server of Helmholtz Zentrum München

Fuchs, H. ; Gailus-Durner, V. ; Adler, T.* ; Aguilar-Pimentel, J.A.* ; Becker, L.* ; Bolle, I. ; Brielmeier, M. ; Calzada-Wack, J. ; Dalke, C. ; Ehrhardt, N.* ; Fasnacht, N.* ; Ferwagner, B. ; Frischmann, U.* ; Hans, W. ; Hölter, S.M. ; Hölzlwimmer, G. ; Horsch, M. ; Javaheri, A.* ; Kallnik, M. ; Kling, E.* ; Lengger, C. ; Maier, H. ; Mossbrugger, I. ; Mörth, C.* ; Naton, B. ; Nöth, U. ; Pasche, B.* ; Prehn, C. ; Przemeck, G.K.H. ; Puk, O. ; Rácz, I.* ; Rathkolb, B.* ; Rozman, J.* ; Schäble, K.-H. ; Schreiner, R.* ; Schrewe, A.* ; Sina, C.* ; Steinkamp, R. ; Thiele, F. ; Willershäuser, M. ; Zeh, R.M. ; Adamski, J. ; Busch, D.H.* ; Beckers, J. ; Behrendt, H.* ; Daniel, H.* ; Esposito, I. ; Favor, J. ; Graw, J. ; Heldmaier, G.* ; Höfler, H. ; Ivandic, B.* ; Katus, H.A.* ; Klingenspor, M.* ; Klopstock, T.* ; Lengeling, A.* ; Mempel, M.* ; Müller, W.* ; Neschen, S. ; Ollert, M.* ; Quintanilla-Martinez, L. ; Rosenstiel, P.* ; Schmidt, J. ; Schreiber, S.* ; Schughart, K.* ; Schulz, S. ; Wolf, E.* ; Wurst, W. ; Zimmer, A.* ; Hrabě de Angelis, M.

The German Mouse Clinic: A platform for systemic phenotype analysis of mouse models.

Curr. Pharm. Biotechnol. 10, 236-243 (2009)
Postprint DOI PMC
Open Access Green
The German Mouse Clinic (GMC) is a large scale phenotyping center where mouse mutant lines are analyzed in a standardized and comprehensive way. The result is an almost complete picture of the phenotype of a mouse mutant line - a systemic view. At the GMC, expert scientists from various fields of mouse research work in close cooperation with clinicians side by side at one location. The phenotype screens comprise the following areas: allergy, behavior, clinical chemistry, cardiovascular analyses, dysmorphology, bone and cartilage, energy metabolism, eye and vision, hostpathogen interactions, immunology, lung function, molecular phenotyping, neurology, nociception, steroid metabolism, and pathology. The German Mouse Clinic is an open access platform that offers a collaboration-based phenotyping to the scientific community (www.mouseclinic.de). More than 80 mutant lines have been analyzed in a primary screen for 320 parameters, and for 95% of the mutant lines we have found new or additional phenotypes that were not associated with the mouse line before. Our data contributed to the association of mutant mouse lines to the corresponding human disease. In addition, the systemic phenotype analysis accounts for pleiotropic gene functions and refines previous phenotypic characterizations. This is an important basis for the analysis of underlying disease mechanisms. We are currently setting up a platform that will include environmental challenge tests to decipher genome-environmental interactions in the areas nutrition, exercise, air, stress and infection with different standardized experiments. This will help us to identify genetic predispositions as susceptibility factors for environmental influences.
Altmetric
Additional Metrics?
[➜Log in]
Edit extra informations Login
Publication type Article: Journal article
Document type Review
Corresponding Author
Keywords lung-function; mice; strains; susceptibility; mutagenesis; generation; mutants; isolate; genome; tool
ISSN (print) / ISBN 1389-2010
e-ISSN 1873-4316
Journal Current Pharmaceutical Biotechnology
Quellenangaben Volume: 10, Issue: 2, Pages: 236-243 Article Number: , Supplement: ,
Publisher Bentham Science Publishers
Non-patent literature Publications
Reviewing status Peer reviewed
Institute(s) Institute of Experimental Genetics (IEG)
Molekulare Endokrinologie und Metabolismus (MEM)
Institute of Lung Biology (LHI)
CF Comparative Medicine (CF-Comparative Medicine)
Institute of Pathology (PATH)
Institute of Developmental Genetics (IDG)
Institute of Human Genetics (IHG)