Foreign DNA transmission by ICSI: Injection of spermatozoa bound with exogenous DNA results in embryonic GFP expression and live rhesus monkey births

Molecular Human Reproduction

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 26-33

  Chan, Anthony W S ^a   Luetjens, C Marc ^a,c   Dominko, Tanja ^a   Ramalho Santos, João ^a   Simerly, Calvin R ^a   Hewitson, Laura ^a   Schatten, Gerald ^a,b  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

GFP; ICSI; Rhesus; Sperm vector; Transgenesis

Indexed keywords

CELL DNA; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; RHODAMINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; DNA TRANSFER; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENE EXPRESSION; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MACACA; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INDUCTION; TRANSGENE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0033982494     PISSN: 13609947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molehr/6.1.26     Document Type: Article

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