Production of alpha 1,3-galactosyltransferase gene-deficient pigs by somatic cell nuclear transfer: A novel selection method for gal alpha 1,3-gal antigen-deficient cells

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 75, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1372-1378

  Fujimura, Tatsuya ^a   Takahagi, Yoichi ^a   Shigehisa, Tamotsu ^a   Nagashima, Hiroshi ^b   Miyagawa, Shuji ^c   Shirakura, Ryota ^d   Murakami, Hiroshi ^a  

^a Animal Engineering Research Institute   (Japan)

^b MEIJI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d Kinki Central Hospital of Mutual Association of Public School Teachers   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alpha 1,3 galactosyltransferase; Nuclear transfer; Transgenic knockout pig; Xenotransplantation

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 1,3 GALACTOSYLTRANSFERASE; ALPHA GAL ANTIGEN; BIOTIN; CARBOHYDRATE ANTIGEN; LECTIN; STREPTAVIDIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL ISOLATION; CELL LABELING; CELL NUCLEUS TRANSPLANTATION; CELL SELECTION; CELL SEPARATION; CLONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE DISRUPTION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; KNOCKOUT GENE; LIVE BIRTH; MAGNETIC SEPARATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIC CELL; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; STILLBIRTH; TRANSGENIC PIG; XENOTRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; ANTIGENS; CELL SEPARATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CLONING, ORGANISM; DISACCHARIDES; FEMALE; FIBROBLASTS; GALACTOSYLTRANSFERASES; HUMANS; MAGNETICS; MALE; NUCLEAR TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; PREGNANCY; SWINE; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

SUIDAE;

EID: 47749149926     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: 10982795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.20890     Document Type: Article

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