Self-illuminating quantum dot conjugates for in vivo imaging

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 339-343

  So, Min Kyung ^a   Xu, Chenjie ^a   Loening, Andreas M ^a,b   Gambhir, Sanjiv S ^a,b   Rao, Jianghong ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLUMINESCENCE; ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUORESCENCE; TISSUE;

AUTOFLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR IMAGING; RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

CARBOXYLIC ACID; LUCIFERASE; MUTANT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOFLUORESCENCE; BIOLUMINESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; CONJUGATE; FLUORESCENCE; ILLUMINATION; IMAGING SYSTEM; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM DOT; RENILLA; SEMICONDUCTOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUORESCENCE; LUCIFERASES; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; MICE; MICE, NUDE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; QUANTUM DOTS; SEMICONDUCTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; RENILLA; RENILLA RENIFORMIS;

EID: 33644854853     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: 15461696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nbt1188     Document Type: Article

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