Human SP-C gene sequences that confer lung epithelium-specific expression in transgenic mice

American Journal of Physiology - Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology

Volumn 278, Issue 5 22-5, 2000, Pages

  Glasser, Stephan W ^a   Burhans, Michael S ^a   Eszterhas, Susan K ^a   Bruno, Michael D ^a   Korfhagen, Thomas R ^a  

^a CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Chloramphenicol acetyltransferase; Thyroid transcription factor 1

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMPHENICOL ACETYLTRANSFERASE; DNA; THYROID TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 1;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; ENZYME ASSAY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LUNG FUNCTION; MOUSE; NEONATAL RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURFACE TENSION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

EID: 0034034949     PISSN: 10400605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajplung.2000.278.5.l933     Document Type: Article

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