Genetically modified pig models for human diseases

N Fan, L Lai - Journal of genetics and genomics, 2013 - Elsevier
Genetically modified animal models are important for understanding the pathogenesis of
human disease and developing therapeutic strategies. Although genetically modified mice …

A huntingtin knockin pig model recapitulates features of selective neurodegeneration in Huntington's disease

S Yan, Z Tu, Z Liu, N Fan, H Yang, S Yang, W Yang… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Huntington's disease (HD) is characterized by preferential loss of the medium spiny
neurons in the striatum. Using CRISPR/Cas9 and somatic nuclear transfer technology, we …

Generation of CRISPR/Cas9-mediated gene-targeted pigs via somatic cell nuclear transfer

X Zhou, J Xin, N Fan, Q Zou, J Huang, Z Ouyang… - Cellular and molecular …, 2015 - Springer
The domestic pig has been widely used as an important large animal model. Precise and
efficient genetic modification in pig provides a great promise in biomedical research. Recently, …

Piglets cloned from induced pluripotent stem cells

N Fan, J Chen, Z Shang, H Dou, G Ji, Q Zou, L Wu… - Cell research, 2013 - nature.com
Embryonic stem (ES) cells are powerful tools for generating genetically modified animals
that can assist in advancing our knowledge of mammalian physiology and disease. Pigs …

Siamese residual network for efficient visual tracking

N Fan, Q Liu, X Li, Z Zhou, Z He - Information Sciences, 2023 - Elsevier
The Siamese tracking framework has attracted much attention due to its scalability and efficiency
in recent years. However, it is less effective in recognizing arbitrary targets with various …

Generation of PPARγ mono-allelic knockout pigs via zinc-finger nucleases and nuclear transfer cloning

…, H Yang, W Li, B Zhao, Z Ouyang, Z Liu, Y Zhao, N Fan… - Cell research, 2011 - nature.com
Gene targeting in mouse embryonic stem (ES) cells has revolutionized the field of mouse
genetics and allowed for the analysis of diverse aspects of gene function in vivo. For more than …

Learning dual-level deep representation for thermal infrared tracking

Q Liu, D Yuan, N Fan, P Gao, X Li… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The feature models used by existing Thermal InfraRed (TIR) tracking methods are usually
learned from RGB images due to the lack of a large-scale TIR image training dataset. However…

Learning deep multi-level similarity for thermal infrared object tracking

Q Liu, X Li, Z He, N Fan, D Yuan… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Existing deep Thermal InfraRed (TIR) trackers only use semantic features to represent the
TIR object, which lack the sufficient discriminative capacity for handling distractors. This …

Generation of gene-target dogs using CRISPR/Cas9 system

…, Q Zhang, Z Zhou, J He, Q Yan, N Fan… - Journal of molecular …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Dear Editor, Dogs (Canis familiaris) serve as human companions and are raised to herd
livestock, aid hunters, guard homes, perform police and rescue work, and guide the blind. Dogs …

Generation of a humanized mesonephros in pigs from induced pluripotent stem cells via embryo complementation

J Wang, W Xie, N Li, W Li, Z Zhang, N Fan, Z Ouyang… - Cell Stem Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Heterologous organ transplantation is an effective way of replacing organ function but is
limited by severe organ shortage. Although generating human organs in other large mammals …