Imaging gene expression in live cells and tissues

Cold Spring Harbor Protocols

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Hong, Hao ^a   Yang, Yunan ^a   Cai, Weibo ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; RED FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BIOLUMINESCENCE; CANCER CELL; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER GROWTH; CELL; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2 GENE; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE THERAPY; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; LIVE CELL; MAMMAL CELL; METASTASIS; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MULTIPHOTON MICROSCOPY; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROGNOSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RNA ANALYSIS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TISSUE; TISSUE SECTION;

EID: 79954591738     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15596095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/pdb.top103     Document Type: Article

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