Bioluminescence imaging: progress and applications

CE Badr, BA Tannous - Trends in biotechnology, 2011 - cell.com
Application of bioluminescence imaging has increased tremendously in the past decade
and has significantly contributed to core conceptual advances in biomedical research. This …

Molecular imaging with reporter genes: has its promise been delivered?

I Serganova, RG Blasberg - Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 2019 - Soc Nuclear Med
The first reporter systems were developed in the early 1980s and were based on measuring
the activity of an enzyme—as a surrogate measure of promoter-driven transcriptional activity …

Detecting cancers through tumor-activatable minicircles that lead to a detectable blood biomarker

JA Ronald, HY Chuang… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Earlier detection of cancers can dramatically improve the efficacy of available treatment
strategies. However, despite decades of effort on blood-based biomarker cancer detection …

Targeting of hepatocellular carcinoma with glypican‐3‐targeting peptide ligand

YL Lee, BC Ahn, Y Lee, SW Lee… - Journal of Peptide …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Hepatocellular carcinoma is a common malignancy. The carcinoma cells express glypican‐
3 (GPC‐3) on the cell membrane. GPC‐3 is also expressed in melanoma cells. Therefore …

A survivin-driven, tumor-activatable minicircle system for prostate cancer theranostics

TD Wang, Y Chen, D Goodale, AL Allan… - Molecular Therapy …, 2021 - cell.com
Gene vectors regulated by tumor-specific promoters to express transgenes specifically in
cancer cells are an emerging approach for cancer diagnosis and treatment. Minicircles are …

[HTML][HTML] Alpha-fetoprotein-targeted reporter gene expression imaging in hepatocellular carcinoma

KI Kim, HK Chung, JH Park, YJ Lee… - World Journal of …, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the most common cancers in Eastern Asia, and its
incidence is increasing globally. Numerous experimental models have been developed to …

Drug discovery by molecular imaging and monitoring therapy response in lymphoma

S Kalimuthu, JH Jeong, JM Oh, BC Ahn - International journal of …, 2017 - mdpi.com
Molecular imaging allows a noninvasive assessment of biochemical and biological
processes in living subjects. Treatment strategies for malignant lymphoma depend on …

Delivery approaches of gene therapy in hepatocellular carcinoma

F Duan, MGEH Lam - Anticancer research, 2013 - ar.iiarjournals.org
Gene therapy has the potential to provide therapeutic benefits to hepatocellular carcinoma
(HCC) patients and has been the subject of intense pre-clinical and clinical research in …

Requisites for successful theranostics with radionuclide-based reporter gene imaging

BC Ahn - Journal of Drug Targeting, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Radionuclide-based theranostic strategy has been widely used in diagnosis and treatment
of patients with hyperthyroidism or differentiated thyroid cancer for a long time, and sodium …

Intratumoral versus intravenous gene therapy using a transcriptionally targeted viral vector in an orthotopic hepatocellular carcinoma rat model

YI Kim, BC Ahn, JA Ronald, R Katzenberg… - Journal of Vascular and …, 2012 - Elsevier
PURPOSE: To evaluate the feasibility of intratumoral delivery of adenoviral vector carrying a
bidirectional two-step transcriptional amplification (TSTA) system to amplify transcriptional …