GFAP promoter drives Müller cell-specific expression in transgenic mice

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 3606-3613

  Kuzmanovic, Milena ^a   Dudley, V Joseph ^b   Sarthy, Vijay P ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CILIARY NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; DNA; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; LUCIFERASE; RETINOID BINDING PROTEIN;

ALBINISM; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA TRANSFECTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MOUSE; MUELLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETINA CELL; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; CILIARY NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEURONS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RETINA; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 0041342075     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.02-1265     Document Type: Article

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