Downstream utrophin enhancer is required for expression of utrophin in skeletal muscle

Journal of Gene Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 702-713

  Tanihata, Jun ^a,b   Suzuki, Naoki ^a,c   Miyagoe Suzuki, Yuko ^a   Imaizumi, Kazuhiko ^b   Takeda, Shin'ichi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE   (Japan)

^b WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Downstream utrophin enhancer; Duchenne muscular dystrophy; Dystrophin; Transcriptional regulation; Transgenic mice; Utrophin

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; UTROPHIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; DOWNSTREAM UTROPHIN ENHANCER; ENHANCER REGION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC REGULATION; HEART MUSCLE; MALE; MOUSE; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MUSCLE REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; STAINING; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; UPREGULATION; X CHROMOSOME LINKED MUSCULAR DYSTROPHIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; DNA PRIMERS; DYSTROPHIN; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LAC OPERON; MICE; MICE, INBRED MDX; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY, DUCHENNE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSGENES; UTROPHIN;

MUS; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 46649103864     PISSN: 1099498X     EISSN: 15212254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgm.1190     Document Type: Article

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