Transcriptional activation of a hybrid promoter composed of cytomegalovirus enhancer and β-actin/β-globin gene in glomerular epithelial cells in vivo

Kidney International

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1265-1269

  Akagi, Yoshitaka ^b   Isaka, Yoshitaka ^b   Akagi, Akiko ^b   Ikawa, Masahito ^b   Takenaka, Masaru ^b   Moriyama, Toshiki ^b   Yamauchi, Atsushi ^b   Horio, Masaru ^b   Ueda, Naohiko ^b   Okabe, Masaru ^b   Imai, Enyu ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ACTIN; BETA GLOBIN; CD4 ANTIGEN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GLOMERULUS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

EID: 8244238387     PISSN: 00852538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ki.1997.172     Document Type: Article

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