The transfer of ingested plant and enterobacterial gene fragments into mice bodies and their shift to the livers of suckling mice through mother's milk

International Journal of Food Engineering

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Nakasuji, Michiko ^a   Koyama, Syu ^a   Takeuchi, Shotaro ^a   Mikami, Osamu ^b   Tanimura, Nobuhiko ^b   Nakajima, Yasuyuki ^b  

^a FUKUI PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b National Institute of Animal Health

Author keywords

DNA transfer; Enterobacterial common DNA; GM maize DNA; Plant DNA; TLR 9

Indexed keywords

DNA; GENES; INTERFERONS; NUCLEIC ACIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BACTERIAL GENES; DNA TRANSFER; GASTROINTESTINAL; GM MAIZE; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELLS; PLANT CHLOROPLASTS; TLR-9; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR 9;

MAMMALS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; MUS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 57349134018     PISSN: 15563758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1556-3758.1296     Document Type: Article

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