Towards Transgenic Primates: What can we learn from mouse genetics?

Science in China, Series C: Life Sciences

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 506-514

  Kuang, Hui ^a,b   Wang, Phillip L ^a,b   Tsien, Joe Z ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b B326 Science Building   (China)

Author keywords

Disease model; Genetics; Learning; Memory; Mouse; Non human primate; Transgene

Indexed keywords

PRIMATES;

ANIMAL; GENE INACTIVATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOUSE; PRIMATE; REVIEW; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; MICE; PRIMATES; TRANSGENES;

EID: 70149100904     PISSN: 10069305     EISSN: 18622798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11427-009-0082-8     Document Type: Review

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