Investigation of Oncogenic Cooperation in Simple Liver-Specific Transgenic Mouse Models Using Noninvasive In Vivo Imaging

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Ju, Hye Lim ^a,b   Ahn, Sang Hoon ^a   Kim, Do Young ^a   Baek, Sinhwa ^a,b   Chung, Sook In ^a,b   Seong, Jinsil ^a   Han, Kwang Hyub ^a   Ro, Simon Weonsang ^a  

^a Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Yonsei University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOLUMINESCENCE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HYDRODYNAMICS; IMAGING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IN VIVO STUDY; LIVER CANCER; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REPORTER GENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; TRANSPOSON; TUMOR GROWTH;

ANIMALS; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HYDRODYNAMICS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LUCIFERASES; LUMINESCENCE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NIH 3T3 CELLS; ONCOGENES; PLASMIDS; TIME FACTORS; TRANSFECTION; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

MUS; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 84875501036     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0059869     Document Type: Article

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