Body window-enabled in vivo multicolor imaging of transplanted mouse islets expressing an insulin-Timer fusion protein

BioTechniques

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 718-722

  Bertera, Suzanne ^a   Geng, Xuehui ^a   Tawadrous, Zakaria ^a   Bottino, Rita ^a   Balamurugan, A N ^a   Rudert, William A ^a   Drain, Peter ^a   Watkins, Simon C ^a   Trucco, Massimo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLS; FLUORESCENCE; INSULIN; PROTEINS;

SELECTIVE DESTRUCTION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

HYBRID PROTEIN; INSULIN TIMER FUSION PROTEIN; PROINSULIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE; GRAFT REJECTION; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; INSULIN SYNTHESIS; KIDNEY CAPSULE; LANGERHANS CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS ISLET BETA CELL; PANCREAS ISLET TRANSPLANTATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; T LYMPHOCYTE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0141995487     PISSN: 07366205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2144/03354st01     Document Type: Article

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