Cell-specific expression of enhanced green fluorescence protein under the control of neuropeptide gene promoters in the brain of the silkworm, Bombyx mori, using Bombyx mori nucleopolyhedrovirus-derived vectors

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 7-12

  Moto, Ken'Ichi ^a   Kojima, Hisao ^b   Kurihara, Masaaki ^a   Iwami, Masafumi ^b   Matsumoto, Shogo ^a  

^a INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^b KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Baculovirus; Bombyx mori; Bombyxin; Gene delivery; PTTH

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; NEUROPEPTIDE; PHOTOPROTEIN; PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN; GENE VECTOR; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LARVA; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYHEDROSIS VIRUS; PROMOTER REGION; SILKWORM;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BOMBYX; BRAIN; DNA PRIMERS; GENETIC VECTORS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LARVA; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; NEUROPEPTIDES; NUCLEOPOLYHEDROVIRUS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS);

AUTOGRAPHA; AUTOGRAPHA CALIFORNICA; AUTOGRAPHA CALIFORNICA NUCLEOPOLYHEDROVIRUS; BOMBYX; BOMBYX MORI; BOMBYX MORI NUCLEOPOLYHEDROVIRUS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; MELANOGASTER; NUCLEOPOLYHEDROVIRUS; UNIDENTIFIED BACULOVIRUS; VECTORS;

EID: 0037211632     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0965-1748(02)00185-6     Document Type: Article

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