Abstract:Background.
Stem cells offer the promise of cardiac repair. Stem cell labeling is a prerequisite to tracking cell fate
in vivo
.
Aim.
To develop a reporter gene that permits
in vivo
stem cell labeling. We examined the sodium-iodide symporter (NIS), a protein that is not expressed in the heart, but promotes cellular uptake of
99m
Tc or
124
I, thus permitting c… Show more
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