High-efficiency, long-term cardiac expression of foreign genes in living mouse embryos and neonates

Circulation

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 178-184

  Christensen, Geir ^a,b   Minamisawa, Susumu ^a   Gruber, Peter J ^a,c   Wang, Yibin ^a,d   Chien, Kenneth R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Myocardium; Myocytes; Proteins; Viruses

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; VIRUS VECTOR;

ADENOVIRUS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TRANSFER; HEART DISEASE; MOUSE; MUSCLE CELL; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY;

EID: 0033977926     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.101.2.178     Document Type: Article

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