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In vivo optical bioluminescence imaging of collagen-supported cardiac cell grafts.

Kutschka I, Chen IY, Kofidis T, von Degenfeld G, Sheikh AY, Hendry SL, Hoyt G, Pearl J, Blau HM, Gambhir SS, Robbins RC. J Heart Lung Transplant. 2007; 26 (3): 273-80

Histology-based survival assessment of cell grafts does not allow for in vivo follow-up. In this study we introduce two new experimental models for longitudinal in vivo survival studies of cardiac cell grafts using optical bioluminescence imaging.

PubMedID: 17346630