The SM 22 promoter directs tissue-specific expression in arterial but not in venous or visceral smooth muscle cells in transgenic mice

Development

Volumn 122, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 2415-2425

  Moessler, H ^a   Mericskay, M ^b   Li, Z ^b   Nagl, S ^c   Paulin, D ^b   Small, J V ^a  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Developmental expression; Promoter; SM 22; Smooth muscle cells; Transgenic mice

Indexed keywords

MUSCLE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERY MUSCLE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; HEART; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; SMOOTH MUSCLE; SOMITE; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE; VEIN;

ANIMALS; ARTERIES; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEART VENTRICLES; INTRONS; LAC OPERON; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLE PROTEINS; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RABBITS; VEINS;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0029788872     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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