Use of the ODD-luciferase transgene for the non-invasive imaging of spontaneous tumors in mice.

In humans, imaging of tumors provides rapid, accurate assessment of tumor growth and location. In laboratory animals, however, the imaging of spontaneously occurring tumors continues to pose many technical and logistical problems. Recently a mouse model was generated in which a chimeric protein cons...

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Main Authors: Scott J Goldman, Elizabeth Chen, Robert Taylor, Sheng Zhang, Whitney Petrosky, Michael Reiss, Shengkan Jin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-03-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3066234?pdf=render