In vivo optical imaging of brain tumors and arthritis using fluorescent SapC-DOPS nanovesicles

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn , Issue 87, 2014, Pages

  Chu, Zhengtao ^a   LaSance, Kathleen ^a   Blanco, Victor ^a   Kwon, Chang Hyuk ^b   Kaur, Balveen ^b   Frederick, Malinda ^a   Thornton, Sherry ^a   Lemen, Lisa ^a   Qi, Xiaoyang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

(SapC); Arthritis; Brain tumor; Dioleoylphosphatidylserine (DOPS); Fluorescence; Fluorophore; Issue 87; Medicine; Multi angle rotational optical imaging (MAROI); Optical imaging; Saposin

Indexed keywords

EID: 84927652354     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/51187     Document Type: Article

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