α,3-Galactosyltransferase-gene knockout in cattle using a single targeting vector with loxP sequences and cre-expressing adenovirus

Transplantation

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 760-766

  Sendai, Yutaka ^a   Sawada, Tokihiko ^b   Urakawa, Manami ^c   Shinkai, Yoichi ^d   Kubota, Keiichi ^b   Hoshi, Hiroyoshi ^a   Aoyagi, Yoshito ^c  

^a Research Institute for the Functional Peptides   (Japan)

^b DOKKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Zen noh Embryo Transfer Center   (Japan)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cattle; Cloning; Nuclear transfer; Xenotransplantation

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 1,3 GALACTOSYLTRANSFERASE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CRE RECOMBINASE; GALACTOSYLTRANSFERASE; INTEGRASE; N ACETYLLACTOSAMINIDE ALPHA 1,3 GALACTOSYLTRANSFERASE; N-ACETYLLACTOSAMINIDE ALPHA-1,3-GALACTOSYLTRANSFERASE; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ADENOVIRUS VECTOR; ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BACKCROSSING; BIRTH WEIGHT; CELL LINE; CELL NUCLEUS TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; DEATH; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FEMALE; FETUS; FIBROBLAST; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GENE CASSETTE; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; INTERNAL RIBOSOME ENTRY SITE; KNOCKOUT GENE; LIVESTOCK; LOXP SITE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RISK ASSESSMENT; ADENOVIRUS; ANIMAL; CATTLE; CLONING; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE VECTOR; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MUTATION;

ADENOVIRIDAE; ALLELES; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CELL LINE; CLONING, ORGANISM; FEMALE; FIBROBLASTS; GALACTOSYLTRANSFERASES; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC VECTORS; INTEGRASES; MUTATION; NUCLEAR TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 33645056467     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.tp.0000190422.66657.f1     Document Type: Article

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