Luigi Grasso,Jian Min Lin,Yuhong Zhou,Brian E. Tomkowicz,Nicholas C. Nicolaides,Philip M. Sass
申请号：
US13876232
公开号：
US20130305396A1
申请日:
2011.09.28
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2013
代理人:
摘要：
Provided herein are rodents that express the human endosialin gene. In preferred embodiments, the rodent is a mouse. Preferably, the human endosialin gene is integrated into the native or endogenous endosialin gene locus. More preferably, the host rodent is null for the endogenous endosialin gene product. The human endosialin gene is preferably expressed in a similar development and disease response pattern as that of the native endosialin gene product in parental or wild type rodents. This feature makes these rodents useful for studying the effects of test agents to positively or negatively affect endosialin biology for therapeutic use. Use of human endosialin expressing rodents lacking native endosialin gene product (HUE rodents) is proposed as a strategy for developing agents that can positively or negatively affect the endosialin pathway and also serve as a screening tool to identify those agents that may be useful as human therapies.
