Stable production of human insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) in the milk of hemi- and homozygous transgenic rabbits over several generations

Transgenic Research

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 437-447

  Zinovieva, Natascha ^a   Lassnig, Caroline ^a   Schams, Dieter ^b   Besenfelder, Urban ^a   Wolf, Eckhard ^c   Müller, Sigrid ^a   Frenyo, Laszlo ^d   Seregi, Janos ^d   Müller, Mathias ^a,e,g   Brem, Gottfried ^a,f  

^a Institute for Agrobiotechnology Tulln   (Austria)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d Dora Major   (Hungary)

^e VUW   (Austria)

^f LUDWIG BOLTZMANN INSTITUTE FOR LUNG VASCULAR RESEARCH   (Austria)

^g UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

Author keywords

Bioreactor; Gene farming; Genetic engineering; Mammary gland; Milk composition; Recombinant protein

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GENE FUSION; HOMOZYGOTE; INSERTIONAL MUTAGENESIS; MILK; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SOMATOMEDIN; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CATTLE; FEMALE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; MAMMARY GLANDS, ANIMAL; MILK PROTEINS; RABBITS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; BOVINAE; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 0032215359     PISSN: 09628819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008831028620     Document Type: Article

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