Use of bioluminescent imaging to assay the transplantation of immortalized human fetal hepatocytes into mice

Cell Transplantation

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 899-909

  Choi, Moon Seok ^a,b   Catana, Andreea M ^a   Wu, Jian ^a   Kim, Young Seok ^a   Yoon, Sang Jeong ^a   Borowsky, Alexander D ^c   Gambhir, Sanjiv S ^d   Gupta, Sanjeev ^e   Zern, Mark A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Hepatocytes; Imaging techniques; Luciferase; Stem cells; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

3 METHYLCHOLANTHRENE; ALPHA 1 ANTITRYPSIN; FIREFLY LUCIFERASE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HUMAN ALBUMIN; LENTIVIRUS VECTOR; LUCIFERIN; MONOCROTALINE; TELOMERASE; THYMIDINE KINASE; TRANSFERRIN; ALBUMINOID; CARCINOGEN;

ADULT; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOLUMINESCENCE; CELL IMMORTALIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FETUS; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; HEPATOCYTE TRANSPLANTATION; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 1; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOUSE; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; NONOBESE DIABETIC MOUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPORTER GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCID MOUSE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPLEEN; ANIMAL; CELL LINE; CHEMOLUMINESCENCE; CYTOLOGY; DISEASE MODEL; FETAL STEM CELL; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETICS; GRAFT SURVIVAL; LENTIVIRINAE; LIVER CELL; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE MUTANT; PHYSIOLOGY; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSPLANTATION;

HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 1; MUS;

ALBUMINS; ALPHA 1-ANTITRYPSIN; ANIMALS; CARCINOGENS; CELL LINE, TRANSFORMED; CHEMILUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FETAL STEM CELLS; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC VECTORS; GRAFT SURVIVAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HEPATOCYTES; HUMANS; LENTIVIRUS; LUCIFERASES, FIREFLY; MICE; MICE, SCID; SPLEEN; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSFECTION; TRANSFERRIN;

EID: 58149391021     PISSN: 09636897     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3727/096368908786576471     Document Type: Article

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