A newly modified SCG10 promoter and Cre/loxP-mediated gene amplification system achieve highly specific neuronal expression in animal brains

Gene Therapy

Volumn 13, Issue 16, 2006, Pages 1244-1250

  Namikawa, K ^a,b   Murakami, K ^a,b   Okamoto, T ^a   Okado, H ^c   Kiyama, H ^a  

^a OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b ASAHIKAWA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^c TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOVIRUS VECTOR; CRE RECOMBINASE; ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; NERVE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL SPECIFICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CASSETTE; GENE EXPRESSION SYSTEM; GENE TRANSFER; IN VIVO STUDY; LOXP SITE; MIXED CELL CULTURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; SILENCER ELEMENT; SUPERIOR CERVICAL GANGLION; TRANSGENE;

3T3 CELLS; ADENOVIRIDAE; ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; BRAIN; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE THERAPY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC VECTORS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; INTEGRASES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NEURONS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RATS; SILENCER ELEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTIONAL; TRANSDUCTION, GENETIC;

ADENOVIRIDAE; ANIMALIA;

EID: 33746867155     PISSN: 09697128     EISSN: 14765462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.gt.3302779     Document Type: Article

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