Advances in bioluminescence imaging of live animal models

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 45-53

  Dothager, Robin S ^a,b   Flentie, Kelly ^a,b   Moss, Britney ^a,b   Pan, Mei Hsiu ^a,b   Kesarwala, Aparna ^a,b   Piwnica Worms, David ^a,b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MODELS; BIOLUMINESCENCE IMAGING; CELL MIGRATIONS; CELL TRAFFICKING; COMPLEX SYSTEMS; DRUG ACTIONS; END POINTS; FUNCTIONAL COMPLEXITY; IN-VIVO; LIVING ANIMALS; MOLECULAR FUNCTIONS; NEW APPROACHES; PROTEIN INTERACTIONS; SIGNALING PATHWAYS; TIME AND SPACES; TIME-SCALES;

BIOLUMINESCENCE; CYTOLOGY; DRUG INTERACTIONS; LIGHT EMISSION; PHOSPHORESCENCE;

ANIMALS;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CHOLECYSTOKININ RECEPTOR; DIZOCILPINE; ENZYME INHIBITOR; HYBRID PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; LUCIFERASE; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIBODY; MUTANT PROTEIN; ONCOLYTIC VIRUS; PROCOLLAGEN PROLINE 2 OXOGLUTARATE 4 DIOXYGENASE; PRODRUG; PROTEIN BIKDD; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SEMAXANIB; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA; TAE 684; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLOGRAFT; ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL MODEL; BIOLUMINESCENCE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER GENE THERAPY; CARDIAC GRAFT REJECTION; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL INFILTRATION; CELL MIGRATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE COURSE; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; GENE FUSION; GENE VECTOR; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HEART FUNCTION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; IMMUNOLOGY; INFECTION; INFLAMMATION; INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; LISTERIOSIS; LYMPHOMA; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS CANCER; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; REPERFUSION INJURY; REPORTER GENE; REVIEW; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSPLANTATION; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ANIMALS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; NEOPLASMS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 65449143667     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2009.01.007     Document Type: Review

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