Luminescent imaging of β-galactosidase activity in living subjects using sequential reporter-enzyme luminescence

Nature Methods

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 295-301

  Wehrman, Thomas S ^a   von Degenfeld, Georges ^a   Krutzik, Peter O ^a   Nolan, Garry P ^a   Blau, Helen M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; FIREFLY LUCIFERASE; LUCIFERIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; BIOLUMINESCENCE; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; IN VIVO STUDY; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MOUSE; MUSCLE INJURY; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPORTER GENE; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; CATALYSIS; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, REPORTER; LIGHT; LUCIFERASES; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; LYMPHOID TISSUE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 33645278110     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth868     Document Type: Article

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