Visualization of intrathoracically disseminated solid tumors in mice with optical imaging by telomerase-specific amplification of a transferred green fluorescent protein gene

Cancer Research

Volumn 64, Issue 17, 2004, Pages 6259-6265

  Umeoka, Tatsuo ^a   Kawashima, Takeshi ^a   Kagawa, Shunsuke ^a,b   Teraishi, Fuminori ^a   Taki, Masaki ^a   Nishizaki, Masahiko ^a   Kyo, Satoru ^c   Nagai, Katsuyuki ^d   Urata, Yasuo ^d   Tanaka, Noriaki ^a   Fujiwara, Toshiyo ^a,b  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c KANAZAWA UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d National Institute of Infectious Diseases   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOVIRUS VECTOR; OBP 301; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; TELOMELYSIN; TELOMERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; COLON CANCER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOSE RESPONSE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERNAL RIBOSOME ENTRY SITE; INTRATUMORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LUNG CANCER; METASTASIS; MOUSE; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPLICATION COMPETENT ADENOVIRUS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOLID TUMOR; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS REPLICATION; X RAY;

ADENOVIRIDAE; ANIMALS; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, NUDE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; TELOMERASE; TRANSGENES; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 4344706615     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-04-1335     Document Type: Article

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