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The ecdysone hormones do not affect mammalian physiology like glucocorticoids or progestins and are not known to be toxic or teratogenic like tetracycline [ 11 ] allowing their use in both developmental studies with transgenic animals as well as in the context of gene therapy and tumor biology studies in mature animals.
First, MCF7 cells were transfected with the pERV3 vector encoding both the RXR protein and an ecdysone/glucocorticoid receptor fusion protein using GenePorter (Gene Therapy Systems).
The use of ecdysone inducible transgene expression in vitro [ 8 9 ] and in transgenic mice [ 10 ] has recently been demonstrated.
Recently, the development of an inducible system based on the insect steroid ecdysone and the nuclear receptor that mediates its effect [ 7 ] has provided an alternative that may circumvent these limitations.
The popularity of the ecdysone inducible gene switch system has led us to investigate its characteristics as a regulator of transgene expression in tumor xenografts since to our knowledge, this has not yet been reported.