Large fragment of the probasin promoter targets high levels of transgene expression to the prostate of transgenic mice

Prostate

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 129-139

  Yan, Y ^b   Sheppard, P C ^b   Kasper, S ^a   Lin, L ^b   Hoare, S ^b   Kapoor, A ^b   Dodd, J G ^b   Duckworth, M L ^b   Matusik, R J ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Androgen regulation; Epithelial cells; Probasin; Prostate; Prostate specific; Transgenic mice

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; CHLORAMPHENICOL ACETYLTRANSFERASE; DNA FRAGMENT; GLUCOCORTICOID; PROBASIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CASTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROSTATE; SEXUAL MATURATION; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

AGING; ANDROGEN-BINDING PROTEIN; ANIMALS; CHLORAMPHENICOL O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; DEXAMETHASONE; DIHYDROTESTOSTERONE; DNA PRIMERS; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, REPORTER; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; OOCYTES; ORCHIECTOMY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROSTATE; RATS; TRANSGLUTAMINASES; ZINC SULFATE;

EID: 0030927430     PISSN: 02704137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0045(19970701)32:2<129::AID-PROS8>3.0.CO;2-H     Document Type: Article

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