Advances in in vivo bioluminescence imaging of gene expression

Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 4, Issue , 2002, Pages 235-260

  Contag, Christopher H ^a   Bachmann, Michael H ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell physiology; Green fluorescent protein; Imaging; Luciferase

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; LUCIFERASE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; BIOLUMINESCENCE; CELL SPECIFICITY; DEVICE; EPIFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FUSION GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC REGULATION; IMAGING SYSTEM; PROTEIN FAMILY; REPORTER GENE; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; ARTIFICIAL GENE FUSION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; LUCIFERASES; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; VIDEO RECORDING;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0036405345     PISSN: 15239829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.bioeng.4.111901.093336     Document Type: Review

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