Noninvasive tracking of gene expression by reporter transgene imaging

Affiliations

¹ Touchstone Center for Diabetes Research, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390-8854, USA. roger.unger@utsouthwestern.edu

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Roger H Unger. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008.

. 2008 Sep 2;105(35):12641-2.

doi: 10.1073/pnas.0806875105.

¹ Touchstone Center for Diabetes Research, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390-8854, USA. roger.unger@utsouthwestern.edu

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