Transgenic Animals Examples Ppt

Transgenic animals can be used as disease models transpharmers xenotransplanters food sources and other biological models.

Transgenic animals examples ppt. Worlds Best PowerPoint Templates - CrystalGraphics offers more PowerPoint templates than anyone else in the world with over 4 million to choose from. The production of transgenic animals has focused mainly on producing models eg the mouse for basic and medical research. A transgenic animal has been genetically engineered to incorporate a foreign gene.

11 These and chronic models for the evaluation of transgenic animals can express HIV-1 proteins. A transgenic animal is animal whose chromosomes have been changed to carry the. Thus the abilities or the phenotype of the organism or the.

Mehendale in Encyclopedia of Toxicology Third Edition 2014 Abstract. Sheep goats pigs cows rabbits rats mice fish insects parasites and even humans have previously been used in this modification process. Do not express key foreign antigens.

Transgenesis is the process by which mixing up of genes takes place. The major types of transgenic animals are listed with examples of each. Transgenic animals are created by deliberately inserting a gene into the genome of an animal.

Foreign genes are inserted into the germ line of the animal so it can be transmitted to the progeny. In this the udder cells from a 6-year-old Finn Dorset white sheep were injected into an unfertilized egg from a Scottish Blackface ewe which had its nucleus removed. Transgenic vertebrates have been developed in species with both scientific and commercial value including fish amphibians birds and mammals.

Then common misconceptions will be addressed and the ethics of transgenic animal creation will be discussed. In terms of commercially important livestock species work has revolved around specialized non-agricultural purposes such as pharmaceutical production and xenotransplantation and to a lesser extent applied agricultural purposes to improve animal. Examples of mAb production in transgenic animals TAs 51 52.