Molecular imaging of the kinetics of vascular endothelial growth factor gene expression in ischemic myocardium

Circulation

Volumn 110, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 685-691

  Wu, Joseph C ^a,c   Chen, Ian Y ^c   Wang, Yanling ^a   Tseng, Jeffrey R ^a   Chhabra, Ankush ^a   Salek, Mahdi ^a   Min, Jung Joon ^a   Fishbein, Michael C ^a   Crystal, Ronald ^b   Gambhir, Sanjiv S ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Gene therapy; Imaging; Myocardium; Nuclear medicine

Indexed keywords

9 (4 FLUOROHYDROXYMETHYLBUTYL)GUANINE F 18; ADENOVIRUS VECTOR; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; NITROGEN 13; THYMIDINE KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASCULOTROPIN;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE THERAPY; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; NONHUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REPORTER GENE; VIRUS MUTANT;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE THERAPY; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC VECTORS; GUANINE; HEART; HEART VENTRICLES; KINETICS; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; MYOCARDIUM; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; TRANSDUCTION, GENETIC; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

EID: 4043081927     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.0000138153.02213.22     Document Type: Article

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