Accurate spatial and temporal transgene expression driven by a 3.8- kilobase promoter of the bovine β-casein gene in the lactating mouse mammary gland

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 236-245

  Cerdán, Marcelo G ^a   Young, Juan I ^a   Zino, Esilda ^a   Falzone, Tomás L ^a   Otero, Verónica ^a   Torres, Héctor N ^a   Rubinstein, Marcelo ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN INGENIERÍA GENÉTICA Y BIOLOGÍA MOLECULAR   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Casein genes; Gene expression; Human growth hormone; Milk; Transgenic mice

Indexed keywords

BETA CASEIN; GROWTH FACTOR; GROWTH HORMONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CATTLE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LACTATION; MAMMARY GLAND FUNCTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; CASEINS; CATTLE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; LACTATION; MALE; MAMMARY GLANDS, ANIMAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MILK; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSGENES;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE; MURINAE; MUS MUSCULUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 0031937141     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2795(199803)49:3<236::AID-MRD3>3.0.CO;2-P     Document Type: Article

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