Muscle-specific transgenic expression of porcine myostatin propeptide enhances muscle growth in mice

Transgenic Research

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1011-1019

  Wang, Kaiyun ^a   Li, Zicong ^a   Li, Yang ^a   Zeng, Jinyong ^a   He, Chang ^a   Yang, Jinzeng ^b   Liu, Dewu ^a   Wu, Zhenfang ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Muscle mass; Myostatin propeptide; Pig; Transgenic mice

Indexed keywords

MUS; MUS MUSCULUS; SUIDAE; SUS;

MYOSTATIN; PRIMER DNA; PROTEIN PRECURSOR;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; DRUG ANTAGONISM; FEMALE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LIMB; MALE; METABOLISM; MOUSE; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; PHYSIOLOGY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SWINE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; DNA PRIMERS; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOSTATIN; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REGULATORY ELEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTIONAL; SEX FACTORS; SWINE;

EID: 84884596509     PISSN: 09628819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11248-013-9709-4     Document Type: Article

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