In vivo imaging of proteolytic enzyme activity using a novel molecular reporter

Cancer Research

Volumn 60, Issue 17, 2000, Pages 4953-4958

  Tung, C H ^a   Mahmood, U ^a   Bredow, S ^a   Weissleder, R ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUOROCHROME;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; IMAGING SYSTEM; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REPORTER GENE; RNA PROBE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; CATHEPSIN D; FLUORESCENT DYES; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICE; MICE, NUDE; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; OLIGOPEPTIDES; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; POLYETHYLENES; POLYLYSINE; RATS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0034283034     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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