Generation of transgenic rats expressing enhanced green fluorescent protein in gonadotropin-releasing hormone neurons

Journal of Reproduction and Development

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 523-529

  Fujioka, Hitomi ^a   Suzuki, Masatoshi ^a   Yamanouchi, Keitaro ^a   Ohta, Akihiko ^b   Nagashima, Hiroshi ^b   Kato, Masakatsu ^c   Nishihara, Masugi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b MEIJI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP); GnRH; Trangenic rat

Indexed keywords

ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GONADORELIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PHOTOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CELL LINE; GENE CASSETTE; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HORMONE RELEASE; HYPOPHYSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OVARY; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TESTIS; THYMUS; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENETICS; MALE; METABOLISM; PLASMID; REPORTER GENE; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; BRAIN; FEMALE; GENES, REPORTER; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MALE; NEURONS; OVARY; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TESTIS; THYMUS GLAND; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSFECTION; TRANSGENES;

EID: 0345832107     PISSN: 09168818     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1262/jrd.49.523     Document Type: Article

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