Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and – Nonhuman animal
Patent
1995-09-12
1998-09-22
Chambers, Jasemine C.
Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and
Nonhuman animal
4353201, 4351723, 435 691, 435375, 935 62, 935 34, 935 70, 424 91, A61K 4800, C12N 1563, C12N 1579
Patent
active
058116346
ABSTRACT:
The invention features a transgenic mammal encoding a chimeric ornithine decarboxylase gene, which transgenic mammal exhibits phenotypic abnormalities. The invention also includes a chimeric transgene comprising ornithine decarboxylase.
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Blessing Manfred
Gilmour Susan K.
Megosh Louis C.
O'Brien Thomas G.
Sawicki Janet A.
Blessing Manfred
Chambers Jasemine C.
Gilmour Susan
Hauda Karen M.
Megosh Louis
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