PET imaging of transgene expression

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 337-348

  MacLaren, Duncan C ^a   Toyokuni, Tatsushi ^a   Cherry, Simon R ^a   Barrio, Jorge R ^a   Phelps, Michael E ^a   Herschman, Harvey R ^a   Gambhir, Sanjiv S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dopamine 2 receptor; Gene expression; Herpes simplex virus thymidine kinase; PET; Reporter gene; Transgene imaging

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; GENE THERAPY; HUMAN; ISOTOPE LABELING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; REVIEW; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, REPORTER; HUMANS; MICE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TRANSGENES;

EID: 0034282812     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3223(00)00970-7     Document Type: Review

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