The multiple uses of fluorescent proteins to visualize cancer in vivo

Nature Reviews Cancer

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 796-806

  Hoffman, Robert M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOVIRUS VECTOR; ANGIOSTATIN; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BISPHOSPHONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; GEMCITABINE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; IRINOTECAN; LIPOSOME; NEW DRUG; RECOMBINANT DNA; RED FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; RETROVIRUS VECTOR; TRANSFERRIN;

ANGIOGENESIS; BLOOD VESSEL; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INVASION; DRUG EFFICACY; GENE THERAPY; HOST CELL; HUMAN; METASTASIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TUMOR CELL; VIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; FLUORESCENCE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; LUMINESCENT AGENTS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 25844461626     PISSN: 1474175X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrc1717     Document Type: Review

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