Iron labeling and pre-clinical MRI visualization of therapeutic human neural stem cells in a murine glioma model

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Thu, Mya S ^a   Najbauer, Joseph ^a   Kendall, Stephen E ^a   Harutyunyan, Ira ^b   Sangalang, Nicole ^a   Gutova, Margarita ^a   Metz, Metz Z ^a   Garcia, Elizabeth ^a   Frank, Richard T ^a   Kim, Seung U ^c,d   Moats, Rex A ^b   Aboody, Karen S ^a  

^a CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d Gachon University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTAMINE SULFATE; SUPERPARAMAGNETIC IRON OXIDE; IRON; MAGNETITE; PROTAMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL LABELING; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL VIABILITY; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; GENE EXPRESSION; GLIOMA; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; NEURAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TRANSGENE; TUMOR XENOGRAFT; ANIMAL; BRAIN; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER TRANSPLANTATION; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; DISEASE MODEL; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CELL; PATHOLOGY; STEM CELL;

ANIMALIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MURINAE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FERROSOFERRIC OXIDE; GLIOMA; HUMANS; IRON; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MICE; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; NEURONS; PROTAMINES; STEM CELLS;

EID: 70349645398     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007218     Document Type: Article

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