Morphological abnormalities, neonatal mortality, and reproductive abnormalities in mice transgenic for diphtheria toxin genes that are driven by the promoter for adipocyte lipid binding protein.

Abstract excerpt

Transgenic mice were used in an experiment that was designed to serve as a model of a possible approach to reducing the amount of carcass fat in meat animals. The objective was to reduce the number of adipocytes in transgenic mice thereby restricting the capacity to accumulate lipid. Our approach...

Topics

• Animals
• Animals, Newborn
• Carrier Proteins
• Congenital Abnormalities
• Diphtheria Toxin
• Fatty Acid-Binding Protein 7
• Fatty Acid-Binding Proteins
• Fatty Acids
• Mice
• Mice, Transgenic
• Mortality
• Mutation
• Neoplasm Proteins
• Nerve Tissue Proteins
• Promoter Regions, Genetic
• Reproduction