Tissue and developmental specific expression of murine smooth muscle γ- actin fusion genes in transgenic mice

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 207, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 135-144

  Qian, Jin ^a,b   Kumar, Ajit ^a   Szucsik, John C ^a   Lessard, James L ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c CINCINNATI CHILDREN S HOSPITAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Developmental gene regulation; Smooth muscle actin; Smooth muscle differentiation; Tissue specific expression; Transgenic mice

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC REGULATION; MOUSE; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; CHLORAMPHENICOL O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, REPORTER; INTRONS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALIA; FELIS CATUS; MURINAE; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0029852132     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0177(199610)207:2<135::AID-AJA2>3.0.CO;2-I     Document Type: Article

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