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ReviewAntiviral research2010

Bioluminescence imaging of reporter mice for studies of infection and inflammation.

Kathryn E Luker, Gary D Luker

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Review in Antiviral research, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 36 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
36citing papers in PubMed
2.3field-weighted citation impact, top 12% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

36 citing papers in PubMed, 67 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Reporter-expressing viruses for antiviral drug discovery research.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2025
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  4. Monitoring RVFV Infection Using Bioluminescent Reporter Viruses In Vivo.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2024
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  10. In vivo optical molecular imaging of inflammation and immunity.Journal of molecular medicine (Berlin, Germany) · 2021
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  15. Dual Reporter Bioluminescence Imaging with NanoLuc and Firefly Luciferase.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2018
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Kathryn E LukerCenter for Molecular Imaging, Department of Radiology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48019-2200, USA. gluker@umich.edu
Gary D Luker
University of Michigan–Ann Arbor · US

Funding

Small Animal Imaging CoreP50CA093990 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI ROSS, BRIAN D. · 2002 to 2012
$19.0M
Michigan Small Animal Imaging Resource (MSAIR)R24CA083099 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI ROSS, BRIAN D. · 1999 to 2006
$4.2M
NCI NIH HHS P50 CA093990NCI NIH HHS P50CA093990NCI NIH HHS R24 CA083099NCI NIH HHS R24CA083099
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In vivo bioluminescence imaging offers the opportunity to study biological processes in living animals, and the study of viral infections and host immune responses can be enhanced substantially through this imaging modality. For most studies of viral pathogenesis and effects of anti-viral therapies, investigators have used recombinant viruses engineered to express a luciferase enzyme. This strategy requires stable insertion of an imaging reporter gene into the viral genome, which is not feasible for many RNA viruses, and provides data on the viral component of pathogenesis but not on the host. Genetically engineered mice with luciferase reporters for specific viral or host genes provide opportunities to overcome these limitations and expand applications of bioluminescence imaging in viral infection and therapy. We review several different types of reporter mice for bioluminescence imaging, including animals that permit in vivo detection of viral replication, trafficking of immune cells, activation of key genes in host immunity to viral infection, and response to tissue damage. By utilizing luciferase enzymes with different emission spectra and/or substrates, it is possible to monitor two different biologic processes in the same animal, such as pathogen replication and sites of tissue injury. Combining imaging reporter viruses with genetically engineered reporter mice is expected to substantially enhance the power of bioluminescence imaging for quantitative studies of viral and host factors that control disease outcome and effects of established and new therapeutic agents.

Indexed as

AnimalsLuciferasesLuminescent MeasurementsMiceMice, TransgenicVirus DiseasesWhole Body ImagingLuciferases

Identifiers

PMID20417377
PMCPMC2863000
OpenAlexW1994357942

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Registered trials

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