Conditions providing enhanced transfection efficiency in rat pheochromocytoma PC12 cells permit analysis of the activity of the far- upstream and proximal promoter of the brain creatine kinase gene

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 92, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 3-13

  Willis, Dianna ^b   Parameswaran, Bhuvana ^a,b   Shen, Wei ^b   Molloy, George R ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain creatine kinase; Energy; Gene promoter; Glia; Neuronal; Transfection

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BRAIN ENZYME; CREATINE KINASE; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL STRAIN; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GLIA CELL; NONHUMAN; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CREATINE KINASE; NEURONS; PC12 CELLS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RATS; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 0032732040     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0270(99)00084-9     Document Type: Article

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