Ultrasound-Targeted Microbubble Destruction Augments Protein Delivery into Testes

Urology

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 386-389

  Bekeredjian, Raffi ^a   Kuecherer, Helmut F ^a   Kroll, Richard D ^a   Katus, Hugo A ^a   Hardt, Stefan E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOACTIVE AGENT; LUCIFERASE; PROTEIN; REPORTER PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOGRAPHY; GAS FILLED MICROBUBBLE; HEART PERFUSION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; KIDNEY PERFUSION; MALE; MICROBUBBLE; MICROSCOPIC ANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RAT; SAFETY; TESTIS BLOOD FLOW;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GENES, REPORTER; LUCIFERASES; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MALE; MICROBUBBLES; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REFERENCE VALUES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TESTIS; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 33847008338     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2006.12.004     Document Type: Article

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