A MIRACLE ENOUGH - THE POWER OF MICE

被引:141
作者
PAIGEN, K
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[1] The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, MA
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10.1038/nm0395-215
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Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
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071010 ; 081704 ;
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“A mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels” Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman The mouse has become our experimental surrogate. It is the creature we turn to to do the experiments, so important in reaching an understanding of ourselves, that are either technically impossible or morally inconceivable in human subjects. © 1995 Nature Publishing Group.
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