Enlightened stem cells in the heart: More efficient and safer reporter gene imaging

Circulation Research

Volumn 111, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1486-1487

  Courties, Gabriel ^a   Nahrendorf, Matthias ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

bioluminescence; imaging; PET; stem cells

Indexed keywords

ZINC FINGER NUCLEASE;

CELL FATE; CELL HOMING; CELL LABELING; CELL TRACKING; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENOME EDITING; HEART; HEART FAILURE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; STEM CELL;

ANIMALS; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; RNA EDITING; ZINC FINGERS;

EID: 84871597640     PISSN: 00097330     EISSN: 15244571     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.112.280982     Document Type: Editorial

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