Plant-produced human growth hormone shows biological activity in a rat model

Biotechnology Progress

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 530-534

  Rabindran, Shailaja ^a   Stevenson, Natalie ^a   Roy, Gourgopal ^a   Fedorkin, Oleg ^a   Skarjinskaia, Marina ^a   Ensley, Burt ^b,c   Yusibov, Vidadi ^a  

^a Fraunhofer USA Inc   (United States)

^b Integrated Biopharma Inc   (United States)

^c DermaPlus Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological activity; Human growth hormone; Plant produced; Rat model

Indexed keywords

A PLANTS; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITIES; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; EFFICIENT SYSTEMS; EXPRESSION VECTORS; FEASIBLE ALTERNATIVES; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; NICOTIANA BENTHAMIANA; PLANT-PRODUCED; RAT MODEL; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; WEIGHT GAIN;

ANIMALS; BIOACTIVITY; DRILLING PLATFORMS; PLANTS (BOTANY); PRODUCTION PLATFORMS; PROTEINS;

RATS;

ANIMALIA; NICOTIANA BENTHAMIANA; RATTUS;

HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TOBACCO;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; TOBACCO;

EID: 66149190947     PISSN: 87567938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/btpr.130     Document Type: Article

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