In vivo monitoring of fetoplacental Vegfr2 gene activity in a murine pregnancy model using a Vegfr2-luc reporter gene and bioluminescent imaging

Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology

Volumn 9, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Greene, Jonathan M ^a,b   Dunaway, Chad W ^b   Bowers, Susan D ^b   Rude, Brian J ^b   Feugang, Jean M ^b   Ryan, Peter L ^a,b  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LUCIFERASE; MESSENGER RNA; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 2;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOLUMINESCENCE; FEMALE; FETOPLACENTAL UNIT; FETUS MONITORING; GENE ACTIVITY; IMAGING; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; REPORTER GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; EVALUATION; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GENETICS; IMAGE PROCESSING; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PLACENTA; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE; MUS; MUS MUSCULUS;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FETUS; GENES, REPORTER; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUCIFERASES; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MODELS, ANIMAL; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR-2; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 79955115575     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7827-9-51     Document Type: Article

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