Optimizing imaging of three-dimensional multicellular tumor spheroids with fluorescent reporter proteins using confocal microscopy

Molecular Imaging

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 214-221

  Roux, Lucia Le ^a,b   Volgin, Andrei ^a,b   Maxwell, David ^a,b   Ishihara, Katashi ^a,b   Gelovani, Juri ^a,b   Schellingerhout, Dawid ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b Olympus America Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURE DISHES; DEPTH RANGE; FLUORESCENT REPORTER; GLIOMA SPHEROIDS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYPOXIA-INDUCIBLE FACTOR 1; IMAGING DEPTH; LASER OUTPUT; MONOLAYER CULTURE; MULTICELLULAR TUMOR SPHEROIDS; RED FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MICROSCOPY; TUMOR BIOLOGY; TUMOR SPHEROID;

CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE; MONOLAYERS; PROTEINS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

TUMORS;

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYPOXIA INDUCIBLE FACTOR 1ALPHA; LUMINESCENT AGENT; PHOTOPROTEIN; PROTEIN; RED FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; GENETICS; GLIOMA; METABOLISM; MULTICELLULAR SPHEROID; NEOPLASM; PATHOLOGY; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; TUMOR CELL CULTURE;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; GENES, REPORTER; GLIOMA; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HYPOXIA-INDUCIBLE FACTOR 1, ALPHA SUBUNIT; LUMINESCENT AGENTS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NEOPLASMS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEINS; SPHEROIDS, CELLULAR; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 61549139735     PISSN: 15353508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2310/7290.2008.00023     Document Type: Article

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