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Cloned fragments of members of the Drosophila and mouse major heat shock (hsp70) gene family were used to demonstrate that homologous sequences are present in the rabbit genome. After a physiologically relevant increase in body temperature of 3°C, transcription of inducible hsp70 genes is detected in both the fetal and maternal brain and kidney. The induced hsp70 gene transcripts decay rapidly after whole body hyperthermia subsides. Transcripts of constitutively expressed member(s) of the hsp70 gene family, the heat shock cognate genes (hsc70), are detected in unstressed fetal and maternal rabbit tissues.
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Brown, I.R., Lowe, D.G. & Moran, L.A. Expression of heat shock genes in fetal and maternal rabbit brain. Neurochem Res 10, 1277–1284 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00964846
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