Improved transfection efficiency of chicken gonadal primordial germ cells for the production of transgenic poultry

Transgenic Research

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 247-252

  Hong, Yeong Ho ^a   Moon, Yangha Kim ^a   Jeong, Dong Kee ^a   Han, Jae Yong ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Electroporation; PGCs; Transfection; Transgenic poultry

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL GENE; CELL CULTURE; CELL ISOLATION; CHICKEN; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; ELECTROPORATION; EUKARYOTIC CELL; FIBROBLAST; GERM CELL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; TRANSGENICS;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; CHICK EMBRYO; CHICKENS; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; DNA PRIMERS; ELECTROPORATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; GERM CELLS; LAC OPERON; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 7844234040     PISSN: 09628819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008861826681     Document Type: Article

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