No Apparent Damage in the Thyroid of Transgenic Mice Expressing Antiapoptotic FLIP
dc.contributor.author | Wang, Su He | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Arscott, Patricia | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Wu, Peiqing | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Baker, James R. Jr. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2009-07-10T19:01:54Z | |
dc.date.available | 2009-07-10T19:01:54Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2006-01-01 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Wang, Su He; Arscott, Patricia; Wu, Peiqing; Baker, James R. (2006). "No Apparent Damage in the Thyroid of Transgenic Mice Expressing Antiapoptotic FLIP." Thyroid 16(1): 1-8 <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/63191> | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/63191 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=retrieve&db=pubmed&list_uids=16487007&dopt=citation | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | FLIP is an antiapoptotic protein that has been demonstrated to play an important role in inflammation, cancer, and autoimmune diseases. However, it is not known whether increased expression of FLIP (FLICE inhibitory protein) in thyrocytes would alter the development of the thyroid and/or pathogenesis of thyroiditis. To examine the effects of overexpression of this antiapoptotic molecule on the thyroid, we have developed transgenic mouse lines that specifically express FLIP in thyrocytes. A DNA construct designed with an in-frame coding sequence for the E8 protein, a viral FLIP, was put under the control of the thyroglobulin (Tg) promoter (the Tg-FLIP transgene). In 8 of 12 resultant transgenic mouse lines, FLIP expression in thyrocytes driven by the Tg promoter was documented, and confirmed at RNA and protein levels. These Tg-FLIP transgenic mice were monitored for 1 year. Throughout the entire observation period, the transgenic mice remained alive and healthy without evidence of thyroid dysfunction. Adult mice were able to breed. Histologic examination of thyroids obtained at various time points did not reveal significant differences between transgenic mice and their control littermates. Therefore, transgenic mice with thyrocyte-specific expression of FLIP have normal thyroid development with no significant changes in thyroid cell death or proliferation. | en_US |
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dc.publisher | Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers | en_US |
dc.title | No Apparent Damage in the Thyroid of Transgenic Mice Expressing Antiapoptotic FLIP | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Health Sciences | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.identifier.pmid | 16487007 | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/63191/1/thy.2006.16.1.pdf | |
dc.identifier.doi | doi:10.1089/thy.2006.16.1 | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | Thyroid | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | Thyroid | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed |
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