The use of the uromodulin promoter to target production of recombinant proteins into urine of transgenic animals

Transgenic Research

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 425-435

  Zbikowska, Halina M ^a   Soukhareva, Nadia ^a   Behnam, Reza ^a   Chang, Rosemary ^b   Drews, Roman ^c   Lubon, Henryk ^d   Hammond, David ^a   Soukharev, Serguei ^a  

^a HOLLAND LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Clearant Inc   (United States)

^c CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Human erythropoietin; lacZ gene; Transgenic mouse; Urine; Uromodulin promoter

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; DNA PRIMERS; ERYTHROPOIETIN, RECOMBINANT; EXONS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; KIDNEY; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MUCOPROTEINS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; TATA BOX;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0036702492     PISSN: 09628819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1016312017024     Document Type: Article

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