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Gene targeting technology and advances in the pathophysiology of inflammation.
Pathology - 1 Apr 2002
Riminton D Sean
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Gene targeting ('knock-out') technology is now widely used in the basic science of all disciplines of pathology and particularly auto-immune and inflammatory disease. Gene targeting is the wilful introduction of precise mutations into the genome of an animal, usually a mouse, affecting the function of a single gene or genes. The phenotyping of knockout mice provides whole animal data on the functions of...
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