Dual-promoter lentiviral vectors for constitutive and regulated gene expression in neurons

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 168, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 104-112

  Gascón, Sergio ^a   Paez Gomez, Juan A ^b   Díaz Guerra, Margarita ^a   Scheiffele, Peter ^c   Scholl, Francisco G ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOMÉDICAS ALBERTO SOLS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Inducible expression; Lentivirus; Primary neurons; Synapsin promoter

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DOXYCYCLINE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; LENTIVIRUS VECTOR; MESSENGER RNA; SYNAPSIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; GENE CASSETTE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; GLIA CELL; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CELLS, CULTURED; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DOXYCYCLINE; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GENETIC VECTORS; LENTIVIRUS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RATS; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 38049000861     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2007.09.023     Document Type: Article

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