Production of germline transgenic prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster) using lentiviral vectors

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1189-1195

  Donaldson, Zoe R ^a   Yang, Shang Hsun ^a   Chan, Anthony W S ^a,b   Young, Larry J ^a,b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavior; Central nervous system; Lentiviral vector; Lentivirus; Prairie vole; Trangenesis; Transgenic

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; LENTIVIRUS VECTOR; UBIQUITIN C;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; FEMALE; GERM CELL; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROTUS OCHROGASTER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC ORGANISM; TRANSGENICS; VITELLINE MEMBRANE; VOLE; ANIMAL; ARVICOLINAE; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; GENETICS; LENTIVIRINAE; METHODOLOGY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALIA; LENTIVIRUS; MICROTUS; MICROTUS OCHROGASTER; MUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS; RODENTIA;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; ARVICOLINAE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; GENETIC VECTORS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LENTIVIRUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSDUCTION, GENETIC; TRANSGENES;

EID: 73949137380     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.109.077529     Document Type: Article

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