Ectopic Expression of the Sodium-Iodide Symporter Enables Imaging of Transplanted Cardiac Stem Cells In Vivo by Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography or Positron Emission Tomography

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 52, Issue 20, 2008, Pages 1652-1660

  Terrovitis, John ^a   Kwok, Keng Fai ^a   Lautamäki, Riikka ^a   Engles, James M ^a   Barth, Andreas S ^a   Kizana, Eddy ^a   Miake, Junichiro ^a   Leppo, Michelle K ^a   Fox, James ^a   Seidel, Jurgen ^a   Pomper, Martin ^b   Wahl, Richard L ^a   Tsui, Benjamin ^a   Bengel, Frank ^a   Marbán, Eduardo ^a   Abraham, M Roselle ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

imaging; PET; SPECT; stem cells

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; DNA; IODINE 124; ISOTOPE; LENTIVIRUS VECTOR; SODIUM IODIDE SYMPORTER; TECHNETIUM 99M; THALLIUM 201;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY LIGATION; EX VIVO STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VIVO STUDY; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; NONHUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPORTER GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STEM CELL;

ADULT STEM CELLS; ANIMALS; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; GENES, REPORTER; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; MYOCARDIUM; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SODIUM PERTECHNETATE TC 99M; SYMPORTERS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 55049116156     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2008.06.051     Document Type: Article

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