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Cellular Redox Profiling Using High-content Microscopy
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Imaging of cancer by redox-mediated mechanism: a radical diagnostic approach
Zhivko Zhelev1, Rumiana Bakalova, Ichio Aoki
1Department of Biophysics, Molecular Imaging Center, NIRS, 4-9-1 Anagawa, Inage-ku, Chiba 263-8555, Japan.
Molecular Biosystems
|October 12, 2010
Abstract:
The present study describes a new diagnostic approach for carcinogenesis based on the different tissue redox activity of normal and cancer-bearing mammalians and its visualization and estimation by cell permeable and DNA annealing probe (nitroxide-labeled nitrosourea) and magnetic resonance imaging.
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