Gut specific expression using mammalian promoters in transgenic Xenopus laevis

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 221-227

  Beck, C W ^a   Slack, J M W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Elastase; Enhancer; Gut; Intestinal fatty acid binding protein; Intestine; Liver; Pancreas; Pancreatic duodenal homeobox 1; Promoter; Transgenic; Transthyretin; Xenopus laevis; XlHbox8

Indexed keywords

ELASTASE; FATTY ACID BINDING PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; PREALBUMIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDODERM; ENHANCER REGION; GENE EXPRESSION; HOMEOBOX; INTESTINE; LIVER; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PANCREAS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CARRIER PROTEINS; DIGESTIVE PHYSIOLOGY; DUODENUM; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); FATTY ACID-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; INTESTINES; LIVER; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MAMMALS; MICE; MYELIN P2 PROTEIN; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PANCREAS; PANCREATIC ELASTASE; PREALBUMIN; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RATS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; MAMMALIA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0032832511     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(99)00217-8     Document Type: Article

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