Real-time imaging of gene promoter activity using an adenoviral reporter construct demonstrates transcriptional dynamics in normal anterior pituitary cells

Journal of Endocrinology

Volumn 178, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 61-69

  Stirland, J A ^b   Seymour, Z C ^a   Windeatt, S ^b   Norris, A J ^b   Stanley, P ^b   Castro, M G ^b,c   Loudon, A S I ^b   White, M R H ^a   Davis, Julian R E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOVIRUS VECTOR; LUCIFERASE; PROLACTIN;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL STRAIN GH3; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HYPOPHYSIS CELL; LUMINESCENCE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYRIAN HAMSTER; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSGENICS;

ADENOVIRIDAE; ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CELLS, CULTURED; CLONE CELLS; FORSKOLIN; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VECTORS; HUMANS; LUCIFERASES; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; PITUITARY GLAND, ANTERIOR; PROLACTIN; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSGENES;

EID: 0041669280     PISSN: 00220795     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1677/joe.0.1780061     Document Type: Article

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