Germ cell expression of an isolated human endogenous retroviral long terminal repeat of the HERV-K/HTDV family in transgenic mice

Journal of Virology

Volumn 73, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 9976-9983

  Casau, Armelle E ^a   Vaughan, Joe E ^b   Lozano, Guillermina ^b   Levine, Arnold J ^c  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; GENE ISOLATION; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETROVIRUS; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; VIRUS ISOLATION;

EID: 0032735122     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.73.12.9976-9983.1999     Document Type: Article

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