Enzyme, lost in most mammals, is shown to protect against UV-induced skin cancer
...repairof these lesions. The researchers found that transgenic mice bearingthe CPD photolyase transgene, in contrast to mice bearing the 6-4PPphotolyase transgene, showed superior resistance to the deleteriouseffects of UV irradiation. Not only could CPD photolyase transgenicanimals withstand doses of UV light t...Fox Chase Cancer Center scientists identify immune-system mutation
...nician Yi Zhang; Xiang Hua, manager of Fox Chase's transgenic mouse facility; Fox Chase research associate Emmanuelle Nicolas, Ph.D.; and Weihong Xu, Ph.D., and Bruce A. Roe, Ph.D., both of the University of Oklahoma's department of chemistry and biochemistry. ...Novel Enzyme Shows Potential As An Anti-HIV Target
...ter is removed. Experiments using cells taken from transgenic mice lacking SIRT1 demonstrated that introducing human SIRT1 enzymes increased Tat’s transcriptional effects in a dose-dependent manner, while treating cells with the small molecule HR73, a derivative of a molecule that inhibits the yeast version of ...Hirsute Or Hairless? Two Proteins May Spell The Difference
...onged approach—involving gene expression analysis, transgenic mice, and cell cultures—to study how epithelial bu...icially sustaining Snail expression in the skin of transgenic mice caused abnormal levels of cell proliferation in the epidermis and reduced cell adhesion. Worki...Transgenic plants remove more selenium from polluted soil than wild plants, new tests show
...sorb more contaminants, researchers found that the transgenic plants handily beat out their wild-type counterpar...ironmental Science and Technology, show that three transgenic lines of the Indian mustard plant, Brassica juncea, absorbed two to four times more selenium from co...* Quick & Easy Conditional Knock Out Kit - loxP from Gene Bridges GmbH
...or plasmids at any position (for the generation of transgenic mouse models). The included loxP-PGK-gb2-neo-loxP cassette is designed to allow neomycin / kanamycin selection in prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells. It combines a prokaryotic promoter (gb2) for expression of kanamycin resistance in E.coli with a euk...* Quick & Easy Conditional Knock Out Kit - FRT from Gene Bridges GmbH
...or plasmids at any position (for the generation of transgenic mouse models). The included FRT-PGK-gb2-neo-FRT cassette is designed to allow neomycin / kanamycin selection in prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells. It combines a prokaryotic promoter (gb2) for expression of kanamycin resistance in E.coli with a eukar......teins, the role of apolipoprotein E and the use of transgenic models. The neurochemistry, in particular potential areas for pharmacological intervention are also discussed....A Positive Selection Assay for Mutation Analysis in Big Blue Animals
...y to perform mutational analysis inthe Big Blue transgenic rodent mutagenesis assay system thatselects for mu... figure 1 Stratagenes Big Blue transgenic rodent mutagenesis assay system has been used extensively for studying mutations sustained i...Big Blue Rodent Cell Cultures for Mutagenesis Studies
... Inc. The Big Blue rat cell line and the Big Blue transgenic mouse embryoniccell line are useful for in vitro m... studies. These cell lines are partof the Big Blue transgenic rodent mutagenesis assay system,* a system fordetecting mutations from several known mutagens in a v...Versatile Vectors for Ponasterone A- Inducible Control of Gene Expression in Mammalian Cells
...is particularly attractive for the construction of transgenic animals. The plasmid also contains a neomycin-resistance gene, which is expressed in both E. coli (kanamycin-resistance) and mammalian cells (G418-resistance). Fig.2 The ecdysone-inducible express...Novel PCR Enhancing Factor Improves Performance of Pfu DNA Polymerase
...target (lane 20) nor a10-kb, 40-copy amplicon from transgenic mouse genomic DNA (lane 18). Incontrast, PfuTurbo DNA polymerase synthesized high yields of all of thelonger vector targets (lanes 15, 17 and 19). In total, the data demonstrate that PCR product yields generated with PfuTurbo DNA polym......2-kb target from a single copy region of a transgenic mouse genome are shown ( figure 2A ). PCR amplifications used equivalent polymerase units of Taq DNA polymerase (alone or in conjunction with a Taq DNA polymerase-specific antibody or magnesium wax beads), AmpliTaq Gold DNA po...Lean Protein Could Be Key to Obesity Drugs
..., Clapham and his team showed that even though the transgenic mice ate 15-54 percent more food than normal mice, their fat-tissue mass was 44-57 percent less.The mice experienced no side effects from the increased UCP3. They had 70 percent lower cholesterol levels than normal mice and seemed to be using their i...Key enzyme protects against Alzheimer's
...f their memory and mental ability. In studies of transgenic mice which lacked the Pin1 gene, the scientists also discovered that the deletion of the gene was enough to cause age-related brain changes in the animals. They uncovered an unexpected cancer connection too. In laboratory studies, Lu noticed that the...New Hair in 15 Days Could Now Be A Possibility Say Researchers
...h of adult hair follicles. Researchers generated transgenic mice expressing an inactive version of ?-catenin i... the researchers shaved the backs of telogen-phase transgenic and wild-type mice, and then applied 4-OHT once. Within 15 days, the transgenic mice grew new hair, ......e organism. The researchers have also showed that transgenic Drosophila that carried human gene CKI -T44A showed the same but lengthy circadian period. And transgenic mice with the same gene showed a shorter circadian period. The results show that CKI -T44A is the ......y of California and Gladstone developed strains of transgenic mice that produce two human proteins – human amyloid precursor protein (hAPP) and human alpha-synuclein (hSYN).Of the two proteins, hAPP is linked with Alzheimer’s and hSYN with Parkinson’s; and mice that produce one of these proteins develop the sym...Pharmexa A/S (DK) - Pharmexa presents data from influenza program
...o inducecell-mediated immune responses can protect transgenic mice againstlethal experimental influenza virus ch...pecifically, the experimental vaccine protectedHLA transgenic mice, which are partially "humanized" against alethal influenza virus infection. The vaccine is des...New Flu Vaccine from PepTcell Could Provide Immunity Against All Strains of Influenza Virus
...ting preparation,FLU-v, was used to immunise eight transgenic mice. At the same timea group of eight control mice were immunised with a set ofnon-related peptides. Following immunisation with FLU-v the mice launched a specificT-cell immune response of the CD8+ subtype against the peptides.T-cells are part of t...New Flu Vaccine From PepTcell Could Provide Immunity Against All Strains of Influenza Virus
...ting preparation,FLU-v, was used to immunise eight transgenic mice. At the same timea group of eight control mice were immunised with a set ofnon-related peptides. Following immunisation with FLU-v the mice launched a specificT-cell immune response of the CD8+ subtype against the peptides.T-cells are part of t......nce the developmentand progression of these tissue transgenic breast tumors. Becausethis observed variation is s...O is generating a large number ofindividual tissue transgenic breast tumors to create a populationof tumors in which to explore the relationship between thisvaria...