Titration of variant HSV1-tk gene expression to determine the sensitivity of 18F-FHBG PET imaging in a prostate tumor

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 757-764

  Johnson, Mai ^a   Karanikolas, Breanne D W ^a   Priceman, Saul J ^a   Powell, Russell ^a   Black, Margaret E ^b   Wu, Hsiao Ming ^a   Czernin, Johannes ^a   Huang, Sung Cheng ^a   Wu, Lily ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Lentivirus; PET; Prostate cancer; Thymidine kinase; Transgene expression

Indexed keywords

9 [4 FLUORO 3 (HYDROXYMETHYL)BUTYL]GUANINE F 18; ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; LENTIVIRUS VECTOR; THYMIDINE KINASE; TRACER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 1; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TRANSGENE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS; GENE EXPRESSION; GUANINE; HERPESVIRUS 1, HUMAN; LENTIVIRUS; MALE; MICE; MOLECULAR PROBE TECHNIQUES; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; THYMIDINE KINASE; TRANSDUCTION, GENETIC;

EID: 66149127014     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.108.058438     Document Type: Article

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