Studying the biodistribution of positron emission tomography reporter probes in mice

Nature Protocols

Volumn 2, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1752-1755

  Yaghoubi, Shahriar S ^a   Berger, Frank ^a   Gambhir, Sanjiv S ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THYMIDINE KINASE; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; ELECTRON; ENZYMOLOGY; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCINTILLATION COUNTING; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALS; CALIBRATION; ELECTRONS; MICE; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCINTILLATION COUNTING; SIMPLEXVIRUS; THYMIDINE KINASE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 34548567871     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2007.228     Document Type: Article

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