Targeting gene expression to the vascular wall in transgenic mice using the murine preproendothelin-1 promoter

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 1995, Pages 1335-1344

  Harats, Dror ^a,b   Kurihara, Hiroki ^c,d   Belloni, Paula ^a   Oakley, Heather ^a   Ziober, Amy ^a   Ackley, Don ^a   Cain, Gary ^a   Kurihara, Yukiko ^d   Lawn, Richard ^c   Sigal, Elliott ^a,b  

^a ROCHE BIOSCIENCE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARACHIDONATE 15 LIPOXYGENASE; ENDOTHELIN 1; PROTEIN PRECURSOR;

ARTERY MUSCLE; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD VESSEL WALL; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

EID: 0028918281     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/JCI117784     Document Type: Article

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