Activation of the chicken metallothionein promoter by metals and oxidative stress in cultured cells and transgenic mice

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - B Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 75-86

  Dalton, Tim ^a,c   Paria, Bibhash C ^b   Fernando, Lawrence P ^a,d   Huet Hudson, Yvette M ^b,e   Dey, Sudhansu K ^b   Andrews, Glen K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

Author keywords

chicken metallothionein; metals; MTF 1; oxidative stress; promoter; transfection; transgenic mice

Indexed keywords

METALLOTHIONEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ZINC;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALIA; GALLUS GALLUS; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0030941965     PISSN: 03050491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-0491(96)00224-6     Document Type: Article

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