Expression analyses of human endogenous retroviruses (HERVs): Tissue-specific and developmental stage-dependent expression of HERVs

Genomics

Volumn 84, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 982-990

  Okahara, Goichi ^a,b   Matsubara, Shinobu ^a   Oda, Takaya ^a   Sugimoto, Jun ^a   Jinno, Yoshihiro ^a   Kanaya, Fuminori ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Expression analysis; HERV; Placenta; Syncytin; Syncytin 2; Temporal change; Tissue specificity

Indexed keywords

SYNCYTIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLACENTA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETROPOSON; RETROVIRUS; SMALL INTESTINE; STOMACH; SYNCYTIUM; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; VIROGENESIS; VIRUS EXPRESSION; VIRUS TRANSCRIPTION;

DATABASES, GENETIC; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; FEMALE; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE PRODUCTS, ENV; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

HUMAN ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS H; HUMAN ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES;

EID: 7944225987     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2004.09.004     Document Type: Article

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