Production of transgenic pigs that express porcine endogenous retrovirus small interfering RNAs

Xenotransplantation

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 164-180

  Ramsoondar, Jagdeece ^a,b   Vaught, Todd ^a   Ball, Suyapa ^a   Mendicino, Michael ^a   Monahan, Jeff ^a   Jobst, Peter ^a   Vance, Amy ^a   Duncan, Jane ^a   Wells, Kevin ^a   Ayares, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b REVIVICOR INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloned; Pigs; Porcine endogenous retrovirus; Short hairpin RNA; Small interface RNA; Transgenic; Xenotransplantation

Indexed keywords

DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE III; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CELL NUCLEUS TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PORCINE ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSGENIC PIG; WESTERN BLOTTING; XENOTRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CELLS, CULTURED; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; FEMALE; FETUS; FIBROBLASTS; GENOME; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SWINE; TRANSGENES;

EID: 67651160600     PISSN: 0908665X     EISSN: 13993089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3089.2009.00525.x     Document Type: Article

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