Isolation of an enhancer from the rat tyrosine hydroxylase promoter that supports long-term, neuronal-specific expression from a neurofilament promoter, in a helper virus-free HSV-1 vector system

Brain Research

Volumn 1130, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-16

  Gao, Qingshen ^a   Sun, Mei ^a   Wang, Xiaodan ^a   Geller, Alfred I ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Enhancer; Herpes simplex virus vector; Insulator; Long term expression; Neurofilament heavy gene promoter; Striatal neuron; Tyrosine hydroxylase promoter

Indexed keywords

HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 1 VECTOR; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS VECTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; ENHANCER REGION; FOREBRAIN; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HELPER VIRUS; LEARNING; MALE; NEUROFILAMENT; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RAT; RECOMBINANT GENE; VIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM; VIRAL GENE THERAPY;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; DNA, RECOMBINANT; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GENETIC VECTORS; HELPER VIRUSES; HERPESVIRUS 1, HUMAN; MALE; NEOSTRIATUM; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEINS; NEURONS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TIME FACTORS; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 1; RATTUS; SIMPLEXVIRUS;

EID: 33845987390     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2006.10.018     Document Type: Article

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