摘要:
The present inventors found that a physiological effect of a particular DNA can be detected independently within mice into which a pool of various DNAs in various quantities has been introduced. This finding suggests that it is possible to identify a DNA having a particular physiological effect by successively fractionating a pool of various DNAs in various quantities using the particular physiological effect seen within a mammal as an index. Such a method of screening will have the advantage of saving much time and effort as required in conventional screenings such as those utilizing transgenic and knockout mice. Furthermore, the method of screening has the additional advantage of enabling the identification of a DNA having a physiological activity, for example, even when the cells producing a physiologically active substance cannot be maintained in vitro or in immunodeficient animals, or when the cells change their characteristics during passage and stop producing the physiologically active substance.
摘要:
A non-human animal that produces human tissue factor (TF) without substantially producing non-human animal tissue factor, said animal having a genome in which cDNA encoding human TF has been inserted upstream of the translation initiation codon for the non-human animal genomic TF gene.
摘要:
A non-human animal that produces human tissue factor (TF) without substantially producing non-human animal tissue factor, said animal having a genome in which cDNA encoding human TF has been inserted upstream of the translation initiation codon for the non-human animal genomic TF gene.
摘要:
A non-human animal that produces human tissue factor (TF) without substantially producing non-human animal tissue factor, said animal having a genome in which cDNA encoding human TF has been inserted upstream of the translation initiation codon for the non-human animal genomic TF gene.
摘要:
The present invention provides a transgenic animal expressing the full-length human hepatitis C virus (HCV) for the purpose of constructing a system for screening for a remedy for human hepatitis C. The present invention is a transgenic hepatitis C model animal, which has the full-length DNA of the hepatitis C virus incorporated therein and can express the full-length HCV gene, and a method of generating a hepatitis C model animal carrying the full-length HCV gene, which comprises introducing a vector containing the full-length DNA of hepatitis C virus into an ES cell, and causing the ES cells to undergo ontogenesis in a pseudo-parent.
摘要:
The present invention provides a knockout animal artificially modified to inhibit α-TTP gene expression. This animal is useful as a tool for understanding mechanisms for the development of familial isolated vitamin E deficiency and other diseases induced by oxidative stress (e.g., arteriosclerosis, diabetes). It is also useful as a tool for developing a therapeutic agent for these diseases.
摘要:
This invention provides methods for producing antibodies, wherein the methods comprise the step of administering an immunogen comprising both a target antigen and a background antigen to transgenic animals, into which a gene coding for the background antigen has been introduced. Since immunotolerance to the background antigens have thus been induced in the transgenic animals, the animals efficiently produce antibodies to target antigens.
摘要:
This invention provides methods for producing antibodies, wherein the methods comprise the step of administering an immunogen comprising both a target antigen and a background antigen to transgenic animals, into which a gene coding for the background antigen has been introduced. Since immunotolerance to the background antigens have thus been induced in the transgenic animals, the animals efficiently produce antibodies to target antigens.