Dual-modality gene reporter for in vivo imaging
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Dual-modality gene reporter for in vivo imaging.
The ability to track cells and their patterns of gene expression in living organisms can increase our understanding of tissue development and disease. Gene reporters for bioluminescence, fluorescence, radionuclide, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) have been described but these suffer variously from limited depth penetration, spatial resolution, and sensitivity. We describe here a gene repor...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0027-8424,1091-6490
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1319000111