Lung Cancer
PET imaging displays transgene distribution in the lungs
Published in Cancer Weekly, December 23rd, 2003
According to researchers in the United States, "this study was designed to evaluate the utility of positron emission tomography ( PET) to quantify the magnitude and spatial distribution of transgene expression after different methods of adenoviral vector delivery (with surfactant- and saline-based vehicles) within rat lungs."
"In all, 17 animals (eight in the surfactant group, nine in the saline group) were studied 3 days after intratracheal administration of a replication-incompetent adenovirus encoding a mutant herpes simplex virus-1 thymidine kinase (mHSV1-TK)enhanced green fluorescent...
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Source: Cancer Weekly (2003-12-23)
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