Position-independent and high-level expression of human α-lactalbumin in the milk of transgenic rats carrying a 210-kb YAC DNA

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 157-163

  Fujiwara, Y ^a   Miwa, M ^a   Takahashi, R ^a   Hirabayashi, M ^a   Suzuki, T ^a   Ueda, M ^a  

^a YS New Technology Institute Inc   (Japan)

Author keywords

LCR; mammary gland; MAR; microinjection; S; vector

Indexed keywords

ALPHA LACTALBUMIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; MAMMARY GLAND; MILK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; RAT; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030958229     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2795(199706)47:2<157::AID-MRD5>3.0.CO;2-L     Document Type: Article

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