The rat probasin gene promoter directs hormonally and developmentally regulated expression of a heterologous gene specifically to the prostate in transgenic mice

Molecular Endocrinology

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1994, Pages 230-239

  Greenberg, N M ^a   DeMayo, F J ^a   Sheppard, P C ^b   Barrios, R ^a   Lebovitz, R ^a   Finegold, M ^c   Angelopoulou, R ^a,d   Dodd, J G ^b   Duckworth, M L ^b   Rosen, J M ^a   Matusik, R J ^b  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^c TEXAS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROBASIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CASTRATION; DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONAL REGULATION; LIGAND BINDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROSTATE; RAT; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANDROGEN-BINDING PROTEIN; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHLORAMPHENICOL O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EPITHELIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROSTATE; RATS;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FELIS CATUS; GALLUS GALLUS; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0028012612     PISSN: 08888809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/me.8.2.230     Document Type: Article

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