Human testis-specific lactate dehydrogenase-C promoter drives overexpression of mouse lactate dehydrogenase-1 cDNA in testes of transgenic mice

Journal of Experimental Zoology

Volumn 282, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 171-178

  Markert, Clement L ^a   Amet, Theodore M ^a   Goldberg, Erwin ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GENE EXPRESSION; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; PROMOTER REGION; SPERMATOGENESIS; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 3543028005     PISSN: 0022104X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-010x(199809/10)282:1/2<171::aid-jez19>3.0.co;2-x     Document Type: Article

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