Ectopic Expression of the Sodium-Iodide Symporter Enables Imaging of Transplanted Cardiac Stem Cells In Vivo by Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography or Positron Emission Tomography - Terrovitis, John; Kwok, Keng Fai; Lautamäki, Riikka; Engles, James M.; Barth, Andreas S.; Kizana, Eddy; Miake, Junichiro; Leppo, Michelle K.; Fox, James; Seidel, Jurgen; Pomper, Martin; Wahl, Richard L.; et al. (Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2008)
Keywords: Adult Stem Cells - transplantation; Animals; Cardiology; Cardiovascular; Cell Survival; Cells, Cultured; Cytomegalovirus; Gamma rays; Genes, Reporter; Heart; Heart attacks; Humans; imaging; Immunohistochemistry; Internal Medicine; Iodine Radioisotopes; Methods; Myocardium - cytology; Myocardium - metabolism; PET; Positron-Emission Tomography; Rats; Rats, Wistar; Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; Sodium; Sodium Pertechnetate Tc 99m; SPECT; Stem cells; Studies; Symporters - genetics; Symporters - metabolism; Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon; stem cells; CDC; rCDC; MRI; LV; imaging; CMV; SPECT; CR; CT; RT-PCR; NIS; PET; computed tomography; magnetic resonance imaging; sodium-iodide symporter; reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction; cardiac-derived stem cell; rat cardiac-derived stem cell; cytomegalovirus promoter; contrast ratio; left ventricle/ventricular; positron emission tomography; single-photon emission computed tomography