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vector

In medicine, disease-carrying agent. The term is usually applied to insects, ticks, and the like, that transmit parasites from one person to another or from animals to human beings. The Anopheles mosquito is a vector, transmitting the malaria parasite in its salivary glands.



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The second major objective of the NAF proposal was to create a targeting vector for the generation of the mouse model of ARSACS, since to our knowledge, there is no mouse strain described that could be considered the ARSACS animal model.
The most common use of the technology is for efficient production of knockout mice, where it is now standard practice to incorporate isogenic DNA as homology regions in gene targeting vectors.
The Red/ET recombination technology, patented in Japan under the title "Novel DNA Cloning Method", is a valued method for generating targeting vectors or modifying E.
 
 
 
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