Molecular cloning and expression analysis of feline α1-microglobulin

Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology

Volumn 139, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 79-82

  Nakata, Junya ^a   Nakahari, Aiko ^a   Kato, Yohei ^a   Yamachi, Nanako ^a   Sato, Nami ^a   Yonezawa, Tomohiro ^a   Takahashi, Chika ^a   Chikazawa, Seishiro ^a   Hori, Yasutomo ^a   Kanai, Kazutaka ^a   Ito, Naoyuki ^a   Higuchi, Seiichi ^a   Hoshi, Fumio ^a  

^a KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

1 Microglobulin; Cat; Cloning; Expression

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 1 MICROGLOBULIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA; ULINASTATIN;

ADRENAL GLAND; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CAT; CEREBELLUM; GENE EXPRESSION; HEART; IMMUNOREGULATION; KIDNEY; LIVER; LUNG; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PANCREAS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPLEEN; TESTIS;

ALPHA-GLOBULINS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CATS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; LIVER; OPEN READING FRAMES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

FELIDAE;

EID: 78650177635     PISSN: 01652427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetimm.2010.08.002     Document Type: Article

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