Seeing the gene therapy: Application of gene gun technique to transfect and decolour pigmented rat skin with human agouti signalling protein cDNA

Gene Therapy

Volumn 11, Issue 13, 2004, Pages 1033-1039

  Yang, C H ^a   Shen, S C ^a   Lee, J C ^a   Wu, P C ^b   Hsueh, S F ^c   Lu, C Y ^b   Meng, C T ^b   Hong, H S ^a   Yang, L C ^b,d  

^a CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b I SHOU UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d TAJEN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Agouti; Gene gun; Melanocortin 1 receptor; Pigmentation; Signalling protein; Tyrosinase

Indexed keywords

AGOUTI PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HERPESVIRUS VECTOR; MELANOCORTIN 1 RECEPTOR; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; PLASMID DNA; SUGAR; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; TUBULIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DECOLORIZATION; DEPIGMENTATION; GENE GUN; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HAIR FOLLICLE; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MELANOGENESIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NONVIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM; NONVIRAL GENE THERAPY; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RAT; RAT STRAIN; RECEPTOR DOWN REGULATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKIN COLOR; SKIN PIGMENTATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; BIOLISTIC TRANSFORMATION; CHEMISTRY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE THERAPY; GENETICS; LONG EVANS RAT; METHODOLOGY; SKIN; TRANSGENE;

AGOUTI; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS;

ANIMALS; BIOLISTICS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE THERAPY; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RECEPTOR, MELANOCORTIN, TYPE 1; SKIN; SKIN PIGMENTATION; TRANSGENES; TUBULIN;

EID: 3242794318     PISSN: 09697128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.gt.3302264     Document Type: Article

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