Applications of molecular imaging in cancer gene therapy

Current Gene Therapy

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 607-618

  Iyer, Meera ^a   Sato, Makoto ^a   Johnson, Mai ^a   Gambhir, Sanjiv S ^a,b   Wu, Lily ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

BLI; Gene therapy of cancer; PET; Targeted gene expression and delivery; Transcriptional amplication

Indexed keywords

ADENOVIRUS VECTOR; ARGINYLGLYCYLASPARTIC ACID; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; COXSACKIE VIRUS AND ADENOVIRUS RECEPTOR; DEPREOTIDE TC 99M; DIHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE; DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR; ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; ETOPOSIDE; FIALURIDINE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; GANCICLOVIR; GLUCOSE REGULATED PROTEIN 78; GUANINE DERIVATIVE; LUCIFERASE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PENCICLOVIR; RADIOISOTOPE; SODIUM IODIDE SYMPORTER; SOMATOSTATIN RECEPTOR; THYMIDINE KINASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GAL4; TRANSFERRIN; VIRUS ENVELOPE PROTEIN; VIRUS ENZYME;

BIOLUMINESCENCE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GENE THERAPY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 1; HUMAN; INTERNAL RIBOSOME ENTRY SITE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MOLECULAR PROBE; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPORTER GENE; REVIEW; SUICIDE GENE; VIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM;

GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE THERAPY; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; LUCIFERASES; LUMINESCENT AGENTS; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSDUCTION, GENETIC;

ADENOVIRIDAE; COXSACKIEVIRUS; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 1;

EID: 29444443670     PISSN: 15665232     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/156652305774964695     Document Type: Review

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