Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and – Nonhuman animal
Patent
1996-04-23
1998-07-07
Crouch, Deborah
Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and
Nonhuman animal
800DIG1, 424 92, 935 63, C12N 500, C12N 1500, A61K 4900
Patent
active
057771944
ABSTRACT:
Disclosed is non-human mouse homozygous for a targeted amyloid precursor protein-encoding gene comprising: (1) a human A.beta. peptide-encoding sequence in place of the native A.beta. peptide-encoding sequence; and (2) Swedish FAD mutations.
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Reaume Andrew G.
Scott Richard W.
Siman Robert
Trusko Stephen P.
Cephalon Inc.
Crouch Deborah
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