Patents Assigned to Edison Animal Biotechnology Center/Ohio University
  • Method of directing transgenic expression in animals using a prolactin promoter
    Patent number: 5082779
    Abstract: A method of expressing a non-prolactin gene in a transgenic animal, said expression occurring essentially only after birth and essentially only in the pituitary cells of said animal, which comprises (a) operably linking said gene to a prolactin promoter to form a transcriptional unit, and (b) introducing said unit into one or more cells of said animal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 1987
    Date of Patent: January 21, 1992
    Assignee: Edison Animal Biotechnology Center/Ohio University
    Inventors: Fritz Rottman, Sherron Helms