A General Approach to the Non-Invasive Imaging of Transgenes Using Cis-Linked Herpes Simplex Virus Thymidine Kinase

Neoplasia

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 315-320

  Tjuvajev, Juri G ^a   Joshi, Arjun ^a   Callegari, James ^a   Lindsley, Laura ^a   Joshi, Revathi ^a   Balatoni, Julius ^a   Finn, Ronald ^a   Larson, Steven M ^a   Sadelain, Michel ^a   Blasberg, Ronald G ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene imaging; Gene therapy; HSV1 tk; IRES; Tumor

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; THYMIDINE KINASE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CANCER TRANSPLANTATION; CELL CULTURE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GAMMA RADIATION; GENE THERAPY; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; GENETICS; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; LACTOSE OPERON; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PROMOTER REGION; RAT; RETROVIRUS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GAMMA RAYS; GENE THERAPY; GENETIC VECTORS; LAC OPERON; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RETROVIRIDAE; SIMPLEXVIRUS; THYMIDINE KINASE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSDUCTION, GENETIC; TRANSGENES; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0033205584     PISSN: 15228002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.neo.7900053     Document Type: Article

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