A highly sensitive and specific assay using a novel human growth hormone cDNA reporter gene regulated by the human interleukin-4 inducible germline ε transcript promoter

Journal of Immunological Methods

Volumn 217, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 87-95

  Jenh, C H ^a   Cox, M A ^a   Lundell, D ^a   Narula, S K ^a   Zavodny, P J ^a  

^a MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Germline transcript promoter; Human growth hormone cDNA; Human interleukin 4; Reporter gene

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; INHIBITOR PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 4;

ARTICLE; ASSAY; CELL CLONING; COMPETITIVE INHIBITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOREGULATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INDUCTION; RECOMBINANT PLASMID; REPORTER GENE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; BURKITT LYMPHOMA; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; GENES, REPORTER; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN EPSILON-CHAINS; INTERLEUKIN-4; MICE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSFECTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0032144252     PISSN: 00221759     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-1759(98)00095-7     Document Type: Article

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