Synthetic promoter AAVs for cell-type specific expression in retinal cells
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... horizontal cells, and Cre-dependent-GFP expresses in horizontal cells and ganglion cells, only the horizontal... in retinal cells. To do this, the group developed a new strategy for finding retinal cell-type specific...and high cell-type specificity.
Strategy #3 (ProC): Create promoters by repeating mouse cell type specific... to test for cell type-specific expression of GFP. Half (113) expressed in retinal cells four weeks post-injection...targeted expression in specific cell types (ex: rods or cones) or cell classes (ex: photoreceptors which...occurred in one type of cell
More than 50% of expression occurred in one type of cell, with the remaining ...ability to target a cell class in mice is not a good predictor for targeting the same cell class in NHPs (...