Complementation of α-thalassaemia in α-globin knockout mice with a 191 kb transgene containing the human α-globin locus

Transgenic Research

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 235-243

  Al Hasani, Keith ^a   Vadolas, Jim ^a   Voullaire, Lucille ^a   Williamson, Robert ^a   Ioannou, Panayiotis A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN; PRIMER DNA;

ALPHA THALASSEMIA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS BREEDING; DISEASE MODEL; ELECTROPHORESIS; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETICS; HEMATOCRIT; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MICROINJECTION; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ALPHA-THALASSEMIA; ANIMALS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, BACTERIAL; CROSSES, GENETIC; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA PRIMERS; ELECTROPHORESIS, CELLULOSE ACETATE; GENE COMPONENTS; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GLOBINS; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROINJECTIONS; TRANSGENES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MURINAE; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 3943086381     PISSN: 09628819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:TRAG.0000034627.36174.06     Document Type: Article

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