Wild-type ICR mice and Rosa-R26R reporter transgenic mice [R26R-TdTomato (Madisen et al., 2010 (link)), R26R-Confetti (Snippert et al., 2010 (link)), and R26R-mT/mG (Muzumdar et al., 2007 (link))] were purchased from Jackson Laboratory, USA. Fucci (Sakaue-Sawano et al., 2008 (link)) fluorescent cell cycle reporter mouse strain was used for cell cycle analyses. The reporter lines were crossed with the K14-Cre43 line (Andl et al., 2004 (link)), kindly provided by Dr. Sarah Millar, to induce genetic recombination. R26R-mT/mG mice were crossed with aSMA-Cre line (LeBleu et al., 2013 (link)), kindly provided by Prof. Kari Alitalo, for recombination tests.
All tissues were fixed with 4% paraformaldehyde (PFA). For E17 and E18 stages, tissues were decalcified with EDTA prior embedding. For histology and immunohistochemistry, tissues were embedded in paraffin and 5 μm thickness sections were used.