Muscle-specific and inducible expression of 293-base pair β-myosin heavy chain promoter in transgenic mice

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 271, Issue 3 40-3, 1996, Pages

  Wiedenman, Jennifer L ^a   Tsika, Gretchen L ^a   Gao, Liying ^a   McCarthy, John J ^a   Rivera Rivera, Ilia D ^a   Vyas, Dharmesh ^a   Sheriff Carter, Katrina ^a   Tsika, Richard W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

developmental expression; DNA regulatory sequence; gene regulation; mechanical overload

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; CHLORAMPHENICOL ACETYLTRANSFERASE; DNA; MYOSIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DNA SEQUENCE; FAST MUSCLE; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INDUCTION; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MOUSE; MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; NONHUMAN; PLANTARIS MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SLOW MUSCLE; SOLEUS MUSCLE; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

EID: 0029799090     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.1996.271.3.r688     Document Type: Article

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