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Experimental control of pancreatic development and maintenance.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 17 Sept 2002
Holland Andrew M, Hale Michael A, Kagami Hideaki, Hammer Robert E, MacDonald Raymond J
Abstract excerpt
To investigate the role of the HOX-like homeoprotein PDX1 in the formation and maintenance of the pancreas, we have genetically engineered mice so that the only source of PDX1 is a transgene that can be controlled by the application of tetracycline or its analogue doxycycline. In these mice the coding region for the tetracycline-regulated transactivator (tTA(off)) has replaced the coding region of the endogenous...
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