An intronic silencer element is responsible for specific zonal expression of glutamine synthetase in the rat liver

Hepatology

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1225-1232

  Gaunitz, Frank ^a   Deichsel, Danilo ^a   Heise, Kerstin ^a   Werth, Max ^a   Anderegg, Ulf ^a   Gebhardt, Rolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID; GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL TYPE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; GENE REPRESSION; INTRON; LIVER; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REPORTER GENE; SILENCER ELEMENT;

ANIMALS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, REPORTER; GLUTAMATE-AMMONIA LIGASE; HEPATOCYTES; INTRONS; LIVER; MALE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SILENCER ELEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTIONAL; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 20044375932     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.20710     Document Type: Article

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