Transgene expression of green fluorescent protein and germ line transmission in cloned pigs derived from in vitro transfected adult fibroblasts

Cloning and Stem Cells

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 409-419

  Brunetti, Dario ^a   Perota, Andrea ^a   Lagutina, Irina ^a   Colleoni, Silvia ^a   Duchi, Roberto ^a   Calabrese, Fiorella ^b   Seveso, Michela ^c   Cozzi, Emanuele ^d   Lazzari, Giovanna ^a   Lucchini, Franco ^e   Galli, Cesare ^a,f  

^a Istituto Sperimentale Italiano Lazzaro Spallanzani   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c Consorzio Per la Ricerca Sul Traplanto di Organo ^*  (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PLASMID VECTOR; RED FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ADULTHOOD; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRTH; CELL NUCLEUS TRANSPLANTATION; CLONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FETUS; FIBROBLAST; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GERM LINE; IN VITRO GENE TRANSFER; MALE; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIC CELL; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC PIG; XENOTRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BLASTOCYST; CELLS, CULTURED; CLONING, ORGANISM; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; FEMALE; FIBROBLASTS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GENETIC VECTORS; GERM CELLS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MALE; SWINE; TRANSFECTION; TRANSGENES;

SUIDAE;

EID: 57149084069     PISSN: 15362302     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/clo.2008.0036     Document Type: Article

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