A minimal human MBP promoter-lacZ transgene is appropriately regulated in developing brain and after optic enucleation, but not in shiverer mutant mice

Journal of Neurobiology

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 10-26

  Wrabetz, Lawrence ^a   Taveggia, Carla ^a   Feltri, Maria Laura ^a   Quattrini, Angelo ^a   Awatramani, Raj ^b   Scherer, Steven S ^c   Messing, Albee ^d   Kamholz, John ^b  

^a SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

LacZ transgene; Myelin basic protein; Oligodendrocytes; Shiverer; Wallerian degeneration

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; MESSENGER RNA; MYELIN BASIC PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ENUCLEATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MOUSE; MYELINATION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE METABOLISM; OPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; SCHWANN CELL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; AXONS; DEMYELINATING DISEASES; EYE ENUCLEATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; LAC OPERON; MICE; MICE, NEUROLOGIC MUTANTS; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MYELIN BASIC PROTEINS; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SCHWANN CELLS;

EID: 0031973488     PISSN: 00223034     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4695(199801)34:1<10::AID-NEU2>3.0.CO;2-F     Document Type: Article

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