Tyrosinase as a multifunctional reporter gene for Photoacoustic/MRI/PET triple modality molecular imaging

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Qin, Chunxia ^a,b   Cheng, Kai ^a   Chen, Kai ^a   Hu, Xiang ^a   Liu, Yang ^a   Lan, Xiaoli ^b   Zhang, Yongxue ^b   Liu, Hongguang ^a   Xu, Yingding ^a   Bu, Lihong ^a   Su, Xinhui ^a   Zhu, Xiaohua ^a   Meng, Shuxian ^a   Cheng, Zhen ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; MELANIN; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; DISEASE MODEL; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MOUSE; NEOPLASM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPORTER GENE; TUMOR CELL LINE; XENOGRAFT;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENES, REPORTER; HETEROGRAFTS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MELANINS; MICE; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; NEOPLASMS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS;

EID: 84875818846     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep01490     Document Type: Article

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