Cloning and Expression of the Dog Mast Cell α-Chymase Gene

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 159, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 4367-4375

  Caughey, George H ^a,b   Blount, John L ^a   Koerber, Karen L ^a   Kitamura, Michael ^a   Fang, Kenneth C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHYMASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA; SERINE PROTEINASE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DOG; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; HUMAN; MAST CELL; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHYMASES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DOGS; HUMANS; MAST CELLS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES;

EID: 0031279354     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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