Smooth muscle-specific expression of the smooth muscle myosin heavy chain gene in transgenic mice requires 5'-flanking and first intronic DNA sequence

Circulation Research

Volumn 82, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 908-917

  Madsen, Cort S ^a   Regan, Christopher P ^c   Hungerford, Jill E ^c   White, Sheryl L ^c   Manabe, Ichiro ^c   Owens, Gary K ^b  

^a BRISTOL MYERS SQUIBB   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Gene targeting; Myosin heavy chain; Smooth muscle differentiation; Smooth muscle specific expression

Indexed keywords

DNA; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA SEQUENCE; EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRON; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SMOOTH MUSCLE; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

EID: 0032482115     PISSN: 00097330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.RES.82.8.908     Document Type: Article

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