Humanized Mice

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Nomura, Tatsuji (Editor), Watanabe, Takeshi (Editor), Habu, Sonoko (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008.
• Series: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology, 324
• Subjects: Medicine.; Human genetics.; Human physiology.; Immunology.; Biomedicine.; Human Genetics.; Human Physiology.

The term humanized mouse in this text refers to a mouse in which human tissues and cells have been transplanted and show the same biological function as they do in the human body. That is, the physiological properties and functions of tra- planted human tissues and cells can be analyzed in the mouse...