On the fate of orally ingested foreign DNA in mice: Chromosomal association and placental transmission to the fetus

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 259, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 569-576

  Schubbert, R ^a,b   Hohlweg, U ^a   Renz, D ^a   Doerfler, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b Medigenomix   (Germany)

Author keywords

FISH; Foreign DNA; Gastrointestinal and transplacental uptake; PCR

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE M13; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATID; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENOME; INGESTION; INTESTINE WALL; LEUKOCYTE; LIVER CELL; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PLACENTAL TRANSFER; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BACTERIOPHAGE M13; DNA; DNA, VIRAL; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL CONTENTS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; KIDNEY; LIVER; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PLASMIDS; PREGNANCY; SPLEEN; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0031767134     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050850     Document Type: Article

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