An optimized telomerase-specific lentivirus for optical imaging of tumors

Cancer Research

Volumn 70, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 2585-2594

  Yu, Song Tao ^a   Yang, Yin Bing ^c   Liang, Guang Ping ^a   Li, Chuan ^a   Chen, Ling ^a   Shi, Chun Meng ^b   Tang, Xu Dong ^a   Li, Chang Zhu ^a   Li, Ling ^a   Wang, Guo Zheng ^a   Wu, Yu Yun ^a   Yang, Shi Ming ^a   Fang, Dian Chun ^a  

^a SOUTHWEST HOSPITAL   (China)

^b THIRD MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; LENTIVIRUS VECTOR; TELOMERASE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; GENE ACTIVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMAGING SYSTEM; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIMIAN VIRUS 40; TUMOR CELL;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL LINE, TUMOR; GENETIC VECTORS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LENTIVIRUS; LUCIFERASES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, NUDE; NEOPLASMS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TELOMERASE; TRANSFECTION; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 77950850169     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: 15387445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-09-3841     Document Type: Article

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