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Death and proliferation time course of stem cells transplanted in the myocardium.
Molecular imaging and biology - 1 Jan 2000
Qiao Hui, Surti Suleman, Choi Seok Rye, Raju Karthik, Zhang Hualei, Ponde Datta E, Kung Hank F, Karp Joel, Zhou Rong
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PURPOSE: Noninvasive positron emission tomography (PET) imaging of reporter gene is combined with quantitative real-time polymerase reverse transcription (RT-PCR) method to study the time course of death and proliferation of stem cells transplanted in the myocardium. METHODS: Male murine embryonic stem cells (ESCs) were stably transfected with a mutant version of herpes simplex virus type 1 thymidine kinase...
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