In vivo US monitoring of catheter-based vascular delivery of gene microspheres in pigs: Feasibility

Radiology

Volumn 228, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 555-559

  Du, Xiangying ^a   Yang, Yuesong ^a   Le Visage, Catherine ^a   Chen, Hunter H ^a   DeJong, Robert ^a   Qiu, Bensheng ^a   Wang, Danming ^a   Leong, Kam W ^a   Hamper, Ulrike M ^a   Yang, Xiaoming ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Animals; Genes and genetics; Microspheres; Ultrasound (US), experimental studies

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MICROSPHERE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERY CATHETER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWINE;

ANIMALS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CATHETERIZATION; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; GENE THERAPY; GENETIC VECTORS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICROSPHERES; PLASMIDS; SWINE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 0042844537     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2282020539     Document Type: Article

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