Quantitative imaging of gene induction in living animals

Gene Therapy

Volumn 8, Issue 20, 2001, Pages 1572-1579

  Sun, X ^a   Annala, A J ^a   Yaghoubi, S S ^a   Barrio, J R ^a   Nguyen, K N ^a   Toyokuni, T ^a   Satyamurthy, N ^a   Namavari, M ^a   Phelps, M E ^a   Herschman, H R ^a   Gambhir, S S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bi directional promoter; Gene expression; Positron emission tomography (PET); Reporter gene; Tetracycline transactivator

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR; TETRACYCLINE; TETRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE; THYMIDINE KINASE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DNA VECTOR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INDUCTION; GENE THERAPY; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMAGING; IN VIVO STUDY; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; QUANTITATIVE GENETICS; REPORTER GENE; TIME; TRANSGENE; VALIDATION PROCESS; VIRUS MUTANT;

ANIMALS; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE THERAPY; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HELA CELLS; HERPESVIRUS 1, HUMAN; HUMANS; LUCIFERASES; MICE; MICE, NUDE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE D2; TETRACYCLINE; THYMIDINE KINASE; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TRANSFECTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0035172469     PISSN: 09697128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.gt.3301554     Document Type: Article

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