A 470 bp WAP-promoter fragment confers lactation independent, progesterone regulated mammary-specific gene expression in transgenic mice

Transgenic Research

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 145-158

  Lipnik, Karoline ^a   Petznek, Helga ^a   Renner Müller, Ingrid ^b   Egerbacher, Monika ^a   Url, Angelika ^a   Salmons, Brian ^c   Günzburg, Walter H ^a   Hohenadl, Christine ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c Austrianova   (Austria)

Author keywords

Hormone regulation; Mammary specific expression; Murine WAP promoter; Progesterone; Transgenic mice

Indexed keywords

MILK PROTEIN; PROGESTERONE; WHEY ACIDIC PROTEINS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; C57BL MOUSE; CARCINOMA; CELL CULTURE; EPITHELIUM CELL; ESTRUS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE VECTOR; GENETICS; LACTATION; MOUSE; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PROMOTER REGION; RETROVIRUS; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; UDDER;

ANIMALS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA; EPITHELIAL CELLS; ESTRUS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC VECTORS; LACTATION; MAMMARY GLANDS, ANIMAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MILK PROTEINS; PREGNANCY; PROGESTERONE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RETROVIRIDAE; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 19944362199     PISSN: 09628819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11248-004-7434-8     Document Type: Article

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