Does recombinant adeno-associated virus-vectored proximal region of mouse rhodopsin promoter support only rod-type specific expression in vivo?

Molecular Vision

Volumn 12, Issue , 2006, Pages 298-309

  Glushakova, Lyudmyla G ^a   Timmers, Adrian M ^a,b,c   Issa, Tawfik M ^a,d   Cortez, Nenita G ^a   Pang, Jijing ^a   Teusner, Jacqueline T ^a   Hauswirth, William W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c ALCON RESEARCH LTD   (United States)

^d LEXICON PHARMACEUTICALS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; LECTIN; LEUCINE ZIPPER PROTEIN; PEANUT AGGLUTININ; RHODOPSIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL LABELING; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VIVO STUDY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARVOVIRUS VECTOR; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RAT; RAT STRAIN; REPORTER GENE; RETINA; RETINA BIPOLAR GANGLION CELL; RETINA GANGLION CELL; VIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM; VIRAL GENE THERAPY; VIRUS RECOMBINANT;

ANIMALS; CONES (RETINA); DEPENDOVIRUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VECTORS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; OPSIN; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RODS (RETINA);

EID: 33645720940     PISSN: 10900535     EISSN: 10900535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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