Quantitative analysis of luciferase activity of viral and hybrid promoters in bovine preimplantation embryos

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 368-373

  Nakamura, Akihiro ^a   Okumura, Jun Ichi ^a   Muramatsu, Tatsuo ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bovine embryo; Chicken actin; Firefly luciferase; Microinjection; RSV LTR; SV40 enhancer

Indexed keywords

LUCIFERASE; VIRUS VECTOR;

ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CATTLE; EMBRYO; ENHANCER REGION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MORULA; NONHUMAN; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION;

ANIMALS; AVIAN SARCOMA VIRUSES; BLASTOCYST; CATTLE; DNA; DNA, VIRAL; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENES, REPORTER; GENES, VIRAL; HYBRID CELLS; LUCIFERASES; MICROINJECTIONS; PREGNANCY; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SIMIAN VIRUS 40; TRANSGENES; VIRAL STRUCTURAL PROTEINS;

BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE; GALLUS GALLUS; MAMMALIA; RICE STRIPE VIRUS;

EID: 0031919225     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2795(199804)49:4<368::AID-MRD3>3.0.CO;2-L     Document Type: Article

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