Molecular cloning of ELOVL4 gene from cynomolgus monkey (Macaca fascicularis)

Experimental Animals

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 129-135

  Umeda, Shinsuke ^a,b   Ayyagari, Radha ^c   Suzuki, Michihiro T ^d   Ono, Fumiko ^d   Iwata, Fumino ^e   Fujiki, Keiko ^e   Kanai, Atsushi ^f   Takada, Yuichiro ^c   Yoshikawa, Yasuhiro ^b   Tanaka, Yasuhiko ^a   Iwata, Takeshi ^a  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION TOKYO MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d The Corporation for Production and Research of Laboratory Primates   (Japan)

^e JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f JUNTENDO TOKYO KOTO GERIATRIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cynomolgus monkey; ELOVL4; Fatty acid; Macular degeneration; Photoreceptor metabolism

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ELONGATION FACTOR; VERY LONG CHAIN FATTY ACID; EYE PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FATTY ACID METABOLISM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HUMAN VERSUS NONHUMAN DATA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MACACA; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTORECEPTOR; PROTEIN FAMILY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETINA; RETINA MACULA DEGENERATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL DETECTION; SKIN; THYMUS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

MACACA FASCICULARIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EYE PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0038117839     PISSN: 13411357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1538/expanim.52.129     Document Type: Article

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