In vivo tracking of stem cell by nanotechnologies: Future prospects for mouse to human translation

Tissue Engineering - Part B: Reviews

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-11

  Villa, Chiara ^a   Erratico, Silvia ^a   Razini, Paola ^a   Farini, Andrea ^a   Meregalli, Mirella ^a   Belicchi, Marzia ^a   Torrente, Yvan ^a  

^a Centro Dino Ferrari   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL BIOLOGY; CONTRAST AGENT; DYNAMIC DETERMINATION; FUTURE DIRECTIONS; FUTURE PROSPECTS; HIGH RESOLUTION; IN-VIVO; IN-VIVO IMAGING; MICROCOMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NEW STRATEGY; REAL TIME; STEM CELL; STEM CELL RESEARCH; TISSUE REGENERATION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOLOGY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NANOTECHNOLOGY; RESONANCE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; STEM CELLS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

CONTRAST MEDIUM; LUCIFERASE; NANOPARTICLE; QUANTUM DOT; RADIOISOTOPE;

ARTICLE; BIOLUMINESCENCE; CELL TRACKING; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA TRANSLATION; SCINTIGRAPHY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; CELL TRACKING; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH;

EID: 79251552572     PISSN: 19373368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ten.teb.2010.0362     Document Type: Article

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