The bladder as a bioreactor: Urothelium production and secretion of growth hormone into urine

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 75-79

  Kerr, David E ^a,d   Liang, Fengxia ^b   Bondioli, Kenneth R ^a,e   Zhao, Haiping ^b   Kreibich, Gert ^c   Wall, Robert J ^a   Sun, Tung Tien ^b  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Kaplan Cancer Center   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^e Columbia Farming Corp ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Agricultural biotechnology; Genetic engineering; Transgenic mice

Indexed keywords

HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; APICAL MEMBRANE; ARTICLE; BIOREACTOR; BIOTECHNOLOGY; BLADDER EPITHELIUM; CYTOPLASM VESICLE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; UROTHELIUM;

ANIMALS; BIOREACTORS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); URINARY BLADDER; UROTHELIUM;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 0031963559     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nbt0198-75     Document Type: Article

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