The Humanized CYP2D6 Mouse was developed by Taconic in collaboration with CXR Biosciences. It was created by first replacing mouse exon 1 to 4 of Cyp2d26 with a hygromycin cassette containing both loxP and frt sites and subsequently replacing mouse exons 4 and 5 of Cyp2d22 with a genomic human CYP2D6 expression cassette containing additional loxP and frt sites through gene targeting in C57BL/6NTac-derived ES cells. The targeted ES cells were injected into BALB/cJBomTac blastocysts and the resultant chimeras were backcrossed to a Cre deleter strain on C57BL/6J to delete the mouse Cyp2d cluster, while retaining the human CYP2D6 expression cassette. The colony is maintained by mating homozygotes.
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