Production of transgenic chimeric rabbits and transmission of the transgene through the germline

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 435-440

  Bodó, Szilárd ^a   Gócza, Elen ^a   Révay, Tamás ^b   Hiripi, László ^a   Carstea, Bogdan ^a   Kovács, András ^a   Bodrogi, Lilla ^a   Bösze, Zsuzsanna ^a  

^a SZENT ISTVÁN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b Institute for Small Animal Research   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Developmental biology; Germline chimeric rabbit; Real time PCR; Reproductive technologies

Indexed keywords

BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 8;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; BLASTOMERE; CHIMERA; CULTURE MEDIUM; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GERM LINE; GERMLINE CHIMERIC RABBIT; HERMAPHRODITISM; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; MICROINJECTION; MORULA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGY; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; TRANSGENICS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BASE SEQUENCE; CHIMERISM; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA PRIMERS; FACTOR VIII; FEMALE; GERM-LINE MUTATION; HUMANS; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; RABBITS; SUPEROVULATION;

ANIMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 4143072670     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.20109     Document Type: Article

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