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Transgenic Rabbits - Rabbits are quite promising for gene farming or molecular farming, which aims at the production of recoverable quantities of pharmaceutically or biologically important proteins encoded by the trans genes.

Generally, the transgenes are designed to be expressed in mammary tissue so that their protein products are secreted in milk. Consequently, the protein product is easily harvested with milk from which it is conveniently purified.

The following human genes encoding valuable proteins have been transferred into rabbits: interleukin 2, growth hormone, tissue plasminogen activator, α1antitrypsin, etc. These genes were expressed in the mammory tissues and their proteins were harvested from milk.