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List of works by Christopher H. Contag

A Clinical Wide-Field Fluorescence Endoscopic Device for Molecular Imaging Demonstrating Cathepsin Protease Activity in Colon Cancer

scientific article published on 6 May 2016

A Dual-Modality Hybrid Imaging System Harnesses Radioluminescence and Sound to Reveal Molecular Pathology of Atherosclerotic Plaques.

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A Raman-based endoscopic strategy for multiplexed molecular imaging

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A general method for conditional regulation of protein stability in living animals

scientific article published on March 2009

A genetic reporter of thermal stress defines physiologic zones over a defined temperature range

scientific article published in February 2004

A killer choice for cancer immunotherapy

scientific article published on May 2014

A potent and specific morpholino antisense inhibitor of hepatitis C translation in mice

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A real-time clinical endoscopic system for intraluminal, multiplexed imaging of surface-enhanced Raman scattering nanoparticles

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Accelerated bone repair after plasma laser corticotomies

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Adipose-derived adult stromal cells heal critical-size mouse calvarial defects

scientific article published on 11 April 2004

Adoptive cellular gene therapy of autoimmune disease

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Adoptive transfer of mast cells does not enhance the impaired survival of Kit(W)/Kit(W-v) mice in a model of low dose intraperitoneal infection with bioluminescent Salmonella typhimurium

scientific article published on 22 March 2005

Advances in in vivo bioluminescence imaging of gene expression

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Advancing molecular therapies through in vivo bioluminescent imaging

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Advancing the translation of optical imaging agents for clinical imaging

scientific article published on 18 December 2012

Assessing delivery and quantifying efficacy of small interfering ribonucleic acid therapeutics in the skin using a dual-axis confocal microscope

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Atherosclerotic plaque targeting mechanism of long-circulating nanoparticles established by multimodal imaging

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Automated Cell Segmentation for Quantitative Phase Microscopy

Biodegradable nanoparticles with sustained release of functional siRNA in skin

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Bioluminescence imaging of lymphocyte trafficking in vivo.

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Bioluminescence regenerative cycle (BRC) system: theoretical considerations for nucleic acid quantification assays

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Bone morphogenetic protein 2 and retinoic acid accelerate in vivo bone formation, osteoclast recruitment, and bone turnover

scientific article published in March 2005

Breaching biological barriers: protein translocation domains as tools for molecular imaging and therapy

scientific article published on October 2003

Breast Cancer Cell Colonization of the Human Bone Marrow Adipose Tissue Niche

scientific article

Breast-milk shedding of drug-resistant HIV-1 subtype C in women exposed to single-dose nevirapine

scientific article published on 23 August 2005

CNOB/ChrR6, a new prodrug enzyme cancer chemotherapy

scientific article published on 03 February 2009

Cancer stem cells from human breast tumors are involved in spontaneous metastases in orthotopic mouse models

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Carbon monoxide and bilirubin production in neonates.

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Cell Labeling with Magneto-Endosymbionts and the Dissection of the Subcellular Location, Fate, and Host Cell Interactions

scientific article published on 19 June 2017

Cellular tolerance to pulsed heating

Cellular tolerance to pulsed hyperthermia.

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Characterization of Magneto-Endosymbionts as MRI Cell Labeling and Tracking Agents.

scientific article published on 14 June 2017

Characterization of coelenterazine analogs for measurements of Renilla luciferase activity in live cells and living animals

scientific article published on January 2004

Charge-altering releasable transporters (CARTs) for the delivery and release of mRNA in living animals

scientific article published on 09 January 2017

Chemical control of protein stability and function in living mice.

scientific article published on 28 September 2008

Chemiluminescence Imaging of Superoxide Anion Detects Beta-Cell Function and Mass

scientific article

Combining immune cell and viral therapy for the treatment of cancer.

scientific article published on June 2007

Comparing an optical parametric oscillator (OPO) as a viable alternative for mid-infrared tissue ablation with a free electron laser (FEL).

scientific article

Comparison of different adult stem cell types for treatment of myocardial ischemia

scientific article published on September 2008

Comparison of gene expression after intraperitoneal delivery of AAV2 or AAV5 in utero

scientific article published on July 2003

Comparison of transplantation of adipose tissue- and bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells in the infarcted heart

scientific article

Components of a curriculum for molecular imaging scientists

scientific article published on 18 March 2011

Confocal fluorescence microscope with dual-axis architecture and biaxial postobjective scanning

scientific article published in July 2004

Definition of an enhanced immune cell therapy in mice that can target stem-like lymphoma cells

scientific article published on 8 October 2010

Delivery and inhibition of reporter genes by small interfering RNAs in a mouse skin model

scientific article published on 24 May 2007

Design and evaluation of a variable aperture collimator for conformal radiotherapy of small animals using a microCT scanner

scientific article

Detection of colonic dysplasia in vivo using a targeted heptapeptide and confocal microendoscopy

scientific article

Detection of endogenous biomolecules in Barrett's esophagus by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy

scholarly article

Detection of non-melanoma skin cancer by in vivo fluorescence imaging with fluorocoxib A.

scientific article

Development of B cells and erythrocytes is specifically impaired by the drug celastrol in mice

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Development of an optimized activatable MMP-14 targeted SPECT imaging probe.

scientific article published on 06 December 2008

Development of quantitative molecular clinical end points for siRNA clinical trials

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Development of therapeutic siRNAs for pachyonychia congenita

scientific article published on 30 August 2007

Differential fates of biomolecules delivered to target cells via extracellular vesicles.

scientific article published on 23 February 2015

Dissection of promoter control modules that direct Bmp4 expression in the epithelium-derived components of hair follicles

scientific article published on 01 May 2002

Donor CD8+ T cells mediate graft-versus-leukemia activity without clinical signs of graft-versus-host disease in recipients conditioned with anti-CD3 monoclonal antibody

scientific article published in January 2007

Dual virus etiology of age-dependent poliomyelitis of mice. A potential model for human motor neuron diseases.

scientific article published on June 1989

Dual-axes confocal microscopy with post-objective scanning and low-coherence heterodyne detection

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Dual-axes confocal reflectance microscope for distinguishing colonic neoplasia

scientific article published in September 2006

Dual-axis confocal microscope for high-resolution in vivo imaging

scientific article published in March 2003

Early CD30 signaling is critical for adoptively transferred CD4+CD25+ regulatory T cells in prevention of acute graft-versus-host disease

scientific article published on 26 October 2006

Early Cancer Detection at the Epithelial Surface

scientific article published on May 2015

Early detection of oral neoplasia: watching with new eyes

scientific article published on 28 April 2009

Effects of metalloporphyrins on heme oxygenase-1 transcription: correlative cell culture assays guide in vivo imaging

scientific article published on July 2003

Efficacy of Cathelicidin-Mimetic Antimicrobial Peptoids against Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on 29 June 2022

Efficacy of antimicrobial peptoids against Mycobacterium tuberculosis

scientific article published on 4 April 2011

Efficient rejection of scattered light enables deep optical sectioning in turbid media with low-numerical-aperture optics in a dual-axis confocal architecture

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Emission spectra of bioluminescent reporters and interaction with mammalian tissue determine the sensitivity of detection in vivo

scientific article published in July 2005

Enhanced killing of primary ovarian cancer by retargeting autologous cytokine-induced killer cells with bispecific antibodies: a preclinical study

scientific article

Enhancing poxvirus oncolytic effects through increased spread and immune evasion

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Erratum: Detection of colonic dysplasia in vivo using a targeted heptapeptide and confocal microendoscopy

scholarly article published in Nature Medicine

Evaluation of effector cell fate and function by in vivo bioluminescence imaging

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Ex vivo expanded dendritic cells home to T-cell zones of lymphoid organs and survive in vivo after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation

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Expression and regulation of heme oxygenase isozymes in the developing mouse cortex

scientific article published on 11 September 2006

Extracellular replication of Listeria monocytogenes in the murine gall bladder

scientific article published in February 2004

FTIR microspectroscopy for improved prostate cancer diagnosis

scientific article published on 23 October 2009

Femtosecond plasma mediated laser ablation has advantages over mechanical osteotomy of cranial bone.

scientific article

Fiber-optic probes enable cancer detection with FTIR spectroscopy

scientific article published on 06 May 2010

Fibered confocal microscopy of bladder tumors: an ex vivo study.

scientific article

Foci of Listeria monocytogenes persist in the bone marrow

scientific article published on 22 December 2008

Functional DNA Delivery Enabled by Lipid-Modified Charge-Altering Releasable Transporters (CARTs).

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Functional imaging of colonic mucosa with a fibered confocal microscope for real-time in vivo pathology

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Gene Silencing in Skin After Deposition of Self-Delivery siRNA With a Motorized Microneedle Array Device

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Gene silencing following siRNA delivery to skin via coated steel microneedles: In vitro and in vivo proof-of-concept

scientific article published on 8 January 2013

Gene transfer via reversible plasmid condensation with cysteine-flanked, internally spaced arginine-rich peptides

scientific article published in September 2003

Generic and personalized RNAi-based therapeutics for a dominant-negative epidermal fragility disorder

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Guided by the light: visualizing biomolecular processes in living animals with bioluminescence

scientific article published on 03 December 2009

HIV type 1 envelope subtype C sequences from recent seroconverters in Zimbabwe.

scientific article published on July 2000

Heme oxygenase-1 deficiency leads to disrupted response to acute stress in stem cells and progenitors

scientific article published on 28 May 2008

Heme oxygenase-1 deletion affects stress erythropoiesis

scientific article (publication date: 2011)

Hemin-activated macrophages home to the pancreas and protect from acute pancreatitis via heme oxygenase-1 induction

scientific article

High-sensitivity, real-time, ratiometric imaging of surface-enhanced Raman scattering nanoparticles with a clinically translatable Raman endoscope device

scientific article published on September 2013

Human Heart Organoid-derived Extracellular Vesicles for Cardiac Intercellular Communication

scientific article published on 12 September 2023

IL-12 enhances efficacy and shortens enrichment time in cytokine-induced killer cell immunotherapy

scientific article published on 09 June 2010

Identification of cell surface targets through meta-analysis of microarray data

scientific article

Image-guided genomic analysis of tissue response to laser-induced thermal stress

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Imaging Functional Nucleic Acid Delivery to Skin

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Imaging of Tumor-Associated Macrophages in a Transgenic Mouse Model of Orthotopic Ovarian Cancer.

scientific article published on 23 February 2017

In utero delivery of adeno-associated viral vectors: intraperitoneal gene transfer produces long-term expression.

scientific article published on March 2001

In vivo activation of the human CYP3A4 promoter in mouse liver and regulation by pregnane X receptors

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In vivo analyses of early events in acute graft-versus-host disease reveal sequential infiltration of T-cell subsets

scientific article published on 26 April 2005

In vivo analysis of heat-shock-protein-70 induction following pulsed laser irradiation in a transgenic reporter mouse

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In vivo bioluminescence imaging for integrated studies of infection

scientific article published on April 2004

In vivo bioluminescence imaging of inducible nitric oxide synthase gene expression in vascular inflammation

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In vivo dynamics of regulatory T-cell trafficking and survival predict effective strategies to control graft-versus-host disease following allogeneic transplantation

scientific article published on 9 November 2006

In vivo imaging of engrafted neural stem cells: its application in evaluating the optimal timing of transplantation for spinal cord injury

scientific article published in September 2005

In vivo imaging of human and mouse skin with a handheld dual-axis confocal fluorescence microscope

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In vivo imaging using bioluminescence: a tool for probing graft-versus-host disease

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In vivo micro-image mosaicing

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In vivo near-infrared dual-axis confocal microendoscopy in the human lower gastrointestinal tract

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In vivo pathology: seeing with molecular specificity and cellular resolution in the living body

scientific article published on January 2007

In vivo patterns of heme oxygenase-1 transcription.

scientific article published in December 2001

In vivo sustained release of siRNA from solid lipid nanoparticles

scientific article published on 18 November 2011

In-vivo optical imaging of hsp70 expression to assess collateral tissue damage associated with infrared laser ablation of skin

scientific article published on September 2008

Indirect imaging of cardiac-specific transgene expression using a bidirectional two-step transcriptional amplification strategy.

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Induced biliary excretion of Listeria monocytogenes

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Infection of pregnant mice with Listeria monocytogenes induces fetal bradycardia

scientific article published on 7 February 2012

Inhibition of CD4+CD25+ regulatory T-cell function by calcineurin-dependent interleukin-2 production

scientific article published on 7 March 2006

Inhibition of CD44 gene expression in human skin models, using self-delivery short interfering RNA administered by dissolvable microneedle arrays

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Inhibition of Hepatitis C IRES-Mediated Gene Expression by Small Hairpin RNAs in Human Hepatocytes and Mice

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Insertable, Implantable and Wearable Micro-optical Devices for the Early Detection of Cancer

Integrated studies of biology: multiplexed imaging assays from molecules to man and back

Integrating the biological characteristics of oncolytic viruses and immune cells can optimize therapeutic benefits of cell-based delivery.

scientific article published on 20 March 2008

Interdigitated annular CMUT arrays for ultrasound assisted delivery of fluorescent contrast agents

Interrogation of inhibitor of nuclear factor κB α/nuclear factor κB (IκBα/NF-κB) negative feedback loop dynamics: from single cells to live animals in vivo

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Intracellular biomass flocculation as a key mechanism of rapid bacterial killing by cationic, amphipathic antimicrobial peptides and peptoids.

scientific article published in December 2017

Intracellular cargo delivery by an octaarginine transporter adapted to target prostate cancer cells through cell surface protease activation.

scientific article published in May 2006

Intravital fluorescence imaging of small interfering RNA-mediated gene repression in a dual reporter melanoma xenograft model

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It's not just about anatomy: in vivo bioluminescence imaging as an eyepiece into biology

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Laser-induced disruption of systemically administered liposomes for targeted drug delivery

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Local estrogen axis in the human bone microenvironment regulates estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer cells

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Longitudinal, noninvasive imaging of T-cell effector function and proliferation in living subjects

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Low levels of Her2/neu expressed by Ewing's family tumor cell lines can redirect cytokine-induced killer cells

scientific article published on June 2005

Luciferin derivatives for enhanced in vitro and in vivo bioluminescence assays

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Lymphoid-tissue-specific homing of bone-marrow-derived dendritic cells

scientific article published on 10 April 2009

MYC inactivation uncovers pluripotent differentiation and tumour dormancy in hepatocellular cancer

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Magnetic particle imaging of islet transplantation in the liver and under the kidney capsule in mouse models

scientific article published in March 2018

Mast cell-derived TNF can exacerbate mortality during severe bacterial infections in C57BL/6-KitW-sh/W-sh mice

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Methods for culturing human femur tissue explants to study breast cancer cell colonization of the metastatic niche

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Micromirror-scanned dual-axis confocal microscope utilizing a gradient-index relay lens for image guidance during brain surgery

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Microscopic Delineation of Medulloblastoma Margins in a Transgenic Mouse Model Using a Topically Applied VEGFR-1 Probe

scientific article published on December 2012

Miniature near-infrared dual-axes confocal microscope utilizing a two-dimensional microelectromechanical systems scanner

scientific article

Minimal-length Synthetic shRNAs Formulated with Lipid Nanoparticles are Potent Inhibitors of Hepatitis C Virus IRES-linked Gene Expression in Mice

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Molecular Imaging of Inflammation and Carcinogenesis

scientific article published on 01 October 2011

Molecular imaging of bone marrow mononuclear cell homing and engraftment in ischemic myocardium

scientific article published on 12 July 2007

Molecular imaging using labeled donor tissues reveals patterns of engraftment, rejection, and survival in transplantation

scientific article published in July 2005

Molecular imaging using visible light to reveal biological changes in the brain

scientific article published on November 2006

Molecular medicine: the writing is on the vessel wall

scientific article published in June 2004

Monitoring age-related susceptibility of young mice to oral Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium infection using an in vivo murine model

scientific article published on 17 March 2005

Monitoring dynamic interactions between breast cancer cells and human bone tissue in a co-culture model

scientific article published on April 2014

More Chemistry Is Needed for Molecular Imaging

scientific article published on 01 February 2016

Multi-modality imaging identifies key times for annexin V imaging as an early predictor of therapeutic outcome

scientific article published on January 2004

Multimodality Imaging of Cancer Superoxide Anion Using the Small Molecule Coelenterazine

scientific article published on 29 September 2015

Myeloid progenitors protect against invasive aspergillosis and Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection following hematopoietic stem cell transplantation

scientific article published on 08 August 2002

Nanoparticle formation of organic compounds with retained biological activity

scientific article published in June 2010

Neutrophil myeloperoxidase diminishes the toxic effects and mortality induced by lipopolysaccharide.

scientific article published on 6 April 2017

New enzyme for reductive cancer chemotherapy, YieF, and its improvement by directed evolution

scientific article published in January 2006

Non-Invasive Intravital Imaging of siRNA-Mediated Mutant Keratin Gene Repression in Skin

scientific article published on 14 July 2015

Non-damaging retinal phototherapy: dynamic range of heat shock protein expression

scientific article

Non-invasive intravital imaging of cellular differentiation with a bright red-excitable fluorescent protein

scientific article

Noninvasive imaging of hypoxia-inducible factor-1α gene therapy for myocardial ischemia

scientific article published on October 2013

Optical Surgical Navigation for Medulloblastoma

Optical monitoring and treatment of potentially lethal wound infections in vivo

scientific article

Overcoming multidrug resistance of small-molecule therapeutics through conjugation with releasable octaarginine transporters

scholarly article

Point-of-care pathology with miniature microscopes.

scientific article published in January 2011

Prenatal Transmission of Subtype C HIV-1 in Zimbabwe: HIV-1 RNA and DNA in Maternal and Cord Blood

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Preparation of Tc99m-labeled Pseudomonas Bacteriophage without Adversely Impacting Infectivity or Biodistribution

scientific article published on 11 October 2017

Prevention of acute graft-versus-host disease by blocking T-cell entry to secondary lymphoid organs

scientific article

Pulse duration determines levels of Hsp70 induction in tissues following laser irradiation

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Quantifying cell-surface biomarker expression in thick tissues with ratiometric three-dimensional microscopy

scientific article

Rapid and quantitative assessment of cancer treatment response using in vivo bioluminescence imaging

scientific article

Reactive Oxygen Species Imaging in a Mouse Model of Inflammatory Bowel Disease

scientific article published on 12 February 2016

Real-time analysis of uptake and bioactivatable cleavage of luciferin-transporter conjugates in transgenic reporter mice.

scholarly article

Real-time in vivo imaging of stem cells following transgenesis by transposition

scientific article published in July 2005

Regulation of Intestine-specific Spatiotemporal Expression by the Rat Lactase Promoter

scientific article published in Journal of Biological Chemistry

Regulation of maternal and fetal hemodynamics by heme oxygenase in mice.

scientific article published on 19 December 2007

Regulatory Aspects of Optical Methods and Exogenous Targets for Cancer Detection.

scientific article published on 20 April 2017

Releasable luciferin-transporter conjugates: tools for the real-time analysis of cellular uptake and release

scientific article published on May 2006

Reporter gene technologies for imaging cell fates in hematopoiesis

scientific article published on January 2014

Retroviral gene therapy of collagen-induced arthritis by local delivery of IL-4.

scientific article published in December 2002

Revealing lymphoma growth and the efficacy of immune cell therapies using in vivo bioluminescence imaging

scientific article published on 26 September 2002

Role of nitric oxide in Salmonella typhimurium-mediated cancer cell killing

scientific article

SU-E-J-198: Bioluminescence Monitoring of Metastatic Breast Cancer: Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Treatment Effects and Tracking of Tumor Cells

scientific article published in June 2012

SU-E-J-63: Correlation Between Radiation Dose and Molecular Bioluminescence Responses of 4T1 Breast Cancer Cells for Adaptive Radiation Therapy

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SU-FF-T-152: Development of a Variable-Aperture Collimator for Small Animal Radiation Therapy

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Selection of potential therapeutics based on in vivo spatiotemporal transcription patterns of heme oxygenase-1.

scientific article published on 19 September 2002

Selective intratumoral amplification of an antiangiogenic vector by an oncolytic virus produces enhanced antivascular and anti-tumor efficacy

scientific article published on 8 February 2006

Shifting foci of hematopoiesis during reconstitution from single stem cells

scientific article

Short-duration-focused ultrasound stimulation of Hsp70 expression in vivo

scientific article

Signaling by Extracellular Vesicles Advances Cancer Hallmarks

scientific article published on 22 January 2016

Silencing of reporter gene expression in skin using siRNAs and expression of plasmid DNA delivered by a soluble protrusion array device (PAD)

scientific article

Single-nucleotide-specific siRNA targeting in a dominant-negative skin model

scientific article

Small hairpin RNAs efficiently inhibit hepatitis C IRES-mediated gene expression in human tissue culture cells and a mouse model

scientific article published on September 2005

Spatiotemporal expression of heme oxygenase-1 detected by in vivo bioluminescence after hepatic ischemia in HO-1/luc mice

scientific article published on 01 November 2006

Specific Imaging of Bacterial Infection using 6'' -(18)F-Fluoromaltotriose: A Second Generation PET Tracer Targeting the Maltodextrin Transporter in Bacteria

scientific article published on 10 May 2017

Stability study of unmodified siRNA and relevance to clinical use.

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Stem cell-mediated accelerated bone healing observed with in vivo molecular and small animal imaging technologies in a model of skeletal injury

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Sustained release of drugs dispersed in polymer nanoparticles

scientific article published on January 2008

Synergistic antitumor effects of immune cell-viral biotherapy

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Systemic Effects of Orally-Administered Zinc and Tin (IV) Metalloporphyrins on Heme Oxygenase Expression in Mice

scientific article published on 01 May 2006

TOB1 is regulated by EGF-dependent HER2 and EGFR signaling, is highly phosphorylated, and indicates poor prognosis in node-negative breast cancer

scientific article

Targeted Nanomeetings within a Larger Delivery Congress

scientific article published on 21 February 2017

Targeting localized immune suppression within the tumor through repeat cycles of immune cell-oncolytic virus combination therapy.

scientific article published on 6 July 2010

The E47 transcription factor negatively regulates CD5 expression during thymocyte development

scholarly article

The T cell STAT signaling network is reprogrammed within hours of bacteremia via secondary signals

scientific article

The effectiveness of oral tin mesoporphyrin prophylaxis in reducing bilirubin production after an oral heme load in a transgenic mouse model

scientific article

The importance of being red.

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The potential Salmonella aroA- vaccine strain is safe and effective in young BALB/c mice

scientific article published on 20 November 2006

The tyrosine kinase inhibitor imatinib mesylate suppresses uric acid crystal-induced acute gouty arthritis in mice.

scientific article published on 5 October 2017

Three-dimensional in vivo imaging by a handheld dual-axes confocal microscope

scientific article

Timing of bone marrow cell delivery has minimal effects on cell viability and cardiac recovery after myocardial infarction

scientific article

Trafficking mesenchymal stem cell engraftment and differentiation in tumor-bearing mice by bioluminescence imaging

scientific article

Treatment of autoimmune disease by adoptive cellular gene therapy

scientific article published on September 2003

Use of an endoscope-compatible probe to detect colonic dysplasia with Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy

scientific article published on July 2009

Use of self-delivery siRNAs to inhibit gene expression in an organotypic pachyonychia congenita model

scientific article published on 20 January 2011

Visualization of plasmid delivery to keratinocytes in mouse and human epidermis

scientific article published on 15 November 2011

Visualizing cellular interactions with a generalized proximity reporter

scientific article published on 6 May 2013

WE-D-I-609-04: Comparison Between PET And Bioluminescence Imaging For Quantitative Assessment Of Tumor Burden

World Molecular Imaging Congress 2016: Imaging Biology-Improving Therapy

scientific article published on 14 April 2016

[99mTc]Annexin V-128 SPECT Monitoring of Splenic and Disseminated Listeriosis in Mice: a Model of Imaging Sepsis

scientific article published on June 2015

siRNA silencing of keratinocyte-specific GFP expression in a transgenic mouse skin model.

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