Role of reporter gene imaging in molecular and cellular biology

Biological Chemistry

Volumn 385, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 353-361

  Mayer Kuckuk, Phillipp ^a,b,c   Menon, Lata G ^a   Blasberg, Ronald G ^c   Bertino, Joseph R ^a   Banerjee, Debabrata ^a  

^a RUTGERS CANCER INSTITUTE OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY   (United States)

^c MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Molecular imaging; Multimodality imaging; Reporter genes; Signal transduction; Transcription; Translation

Indexed keywords

CARBON 11; CARMUSTINE; DIHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE; FIALURIDINE; FLUORINE 18; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GUANINE DERIVATIVE; IODINE 123; IODINE 124; IODINE 131; LUCIFERASE; METHOTREXATE; PROTEIN P21; PROTEIN P53; RNA; THYMIDINE KINASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NFAT; TRIMETREXATE;

APOPTOSIS; BIOLUMINESCENCE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CELL ACTIVITY; COLON CANCER; CYTOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GLIOMA; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; LEUKEMIA CELL LINE; LIVER CANCER; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; MICROENVIRONMENT; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MONITORING; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; OSTEOSARCOMA; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RAT; REPORTER GENE; REVIEW; RNA TRANSLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, REPORTER; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; MICE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; OPTICS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS);

RODENTIA;

EID: 2942741151     PISSN: 14316730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/BC.2004.039     Document Type: Review

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