Production of transgenic tilapia with Brockmann bodies secreting [desThrB30] human insulin

Transgenic Research

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 313-323

  Pohajdak, Bill ^a   Mansour, Marc ^a   Hrytsenko, Olga ^a   Michael Conlon, J ^b   Clayton Dymond, L ^c   Wright Jr , James R ^a,c  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^c Department of Pathology ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

diabetes; islets; teleosts; transgenic fish; xenotransplantation

Indexed keywords

INSULIN; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDE; THREONINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; GENE DELETION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PANCREAS ISLET; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SECRETION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TILAPIA; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BASE SEQUENCE; HUMANS; INSULIN; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE DELETION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; THREONINE; TILAPIA;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS; TELEOSTEI; TILAPIA;

EID: 4444376277     PISSN: 09628819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:TRAG.0000040036.11109.ee     Document Type: Article

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