Ferritin as a reporter gene for MRI: Chronic liver over expression of h-ferritin during dietary iron supplementation and aging

NMR in Biomedicine

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 523-531

  Ziv, Keren ^a   Meir, Gila ^a   Harmelin, Alon ^a   Shimoni, Eyal ^a   Klein, Eugenia ^a   Neeman, Michal ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Aging; Ferritin; Iron; Reporter gene

Indexed keywords

ELEVATED LEVEL; FERRITIN IRON; GENETICALLY MODIFIED; HEAVY CHAIN; HEPATOCYTES; HIGH MAGNETIC FIELDS; HISTOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; IRON-STORAGE PROTEIN; LONG-TERM EFFECTS; MR SIGNALS; OVER-EXPRESSION; RELAXATION RATES; REPORTER GENE; TRANSGENIC ANIMALS; TRANSGENIC MICE; VIRAL GENES; WELLBEING; WILD TYPES;

ANIMALS; GENE TRANSFER; LIVER; MAGNETIC FIELDS; PLANTS (BOTANY);

GENE EXPRESSION;

FERRITIN;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL WELLBEING; ARTICLE; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLOW UP; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HISTOLOGY; IRON INTAKE; LIVER CELL; MAGNETIC FIELD; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; WILD TYPE;

AGING; ANIMALS; APOFERRITINS; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; GENES, REPORTER; HEMOSIDERIN; HEPATOCYTES; IRON; IRON, DIETARY; LIVER; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; STAINING AND LABELING;

ANIMALIA; MUS; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 77953490939     PISSN: 09523480     EISSN: 10991492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nbm.1491     Document Type: Article

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