The potential of a new stable ultrasound contrast agent for site-specific targeting. An in vitro experiment

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1473-1478

  Korosoglou, Grigorios ^a   Behrens, Silke ^b   Bekeredjian, Raffi ^a   Hardt, Stefan ^a   Hagenmueller, Marco ^a   Dinjus, Eckhard ^b   Böhm, Konrad Joachim ^c   Unger, Eberhard ^c   Katus, Hugo A ^a   Kuecherer, Helmut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c FRITZ LIPMANN INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antibody conjugation; Contrast agents; Site targeting; Ultrasound imaging

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY CONJUGATION; CONTRAST AGENTS; SITE TARGETING; ULTRASOUND IMAGING;

ANTIBODIES; CELLS; IMMUNOLOGY; OPACITY; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ULTRASONICS;

BETA TUBULIN; CONTRAST MEDIUM; COPOLYMER; ENDOTHELIAL LEUKOCYTE ADHESION MOLECULE 1; FIBRIN ANTIBODY; GOLD; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PROTEIN ANTIBODY; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CONTRAST RADIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; IN VITRO STUDY; MICROBUBBLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RADIATION FIELD; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THROMBUS; ULTRASOUND; UMBILICAL VEIN;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; BIOTINYLATION; CELLS, CULTURED; E-SELECTIN; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FIBRIN; GOLD; HUMANS; MICROBUBBLES; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MICROTUBULES; THROMBOSIS; UMBILICAL VEINS;

EID: 33749533017     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2006.06.025     Document Type: Article

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