Genetic engineering of pigs for the creation of translational models of human pathologies

Animal Frontiers

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 50-56

  Dmochewitz, Michaela ^a   Wolf, Eckhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cystic fibrosis; Disease model; Duchenne muscular dystrophy; Pig; Translational medicine

Indexed keywords

EID: 84955745425     PISSN: 21606056     EISSN: 21606064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2527/af.2015-0008     Document Type: Article

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