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Transgenic mice with a mutated collagen promoter display normal response during bleomycin-induced fibrosis and possess neurological abnormalities.
Journal of cellular biochemistry - 1 Feb 2000
Stoddart J H, Ladd D, Bronson R T, Harmon M, Jaworski J, Pritzker C, Lausen N, Smith B D
Abstract excerpt
We have previously identified a potential TGF-beta activation element (TAE) in the rat collagen alpha1(I) promoter at -1624 upstream of the transcriptional start site [Ritzenthaler et al., 1991, 1993]. To determine the importance of the TAE in vivo, we produced transgenic mice carrying 3.6 kb of the rat collagen alpha1(I) promoter linked to the reporter gene chloramphenicol acetyl transferase with and without...
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