Cytotoxicity and cellular uptake of pyrimidine nucleosides for imaging herpes simplex type-1 thymidine kinase (HSV-1 TK) expression in mammalian cells

KW Morin, W Duan, L Xu, A Zhou, S Moharram… - Nuclear medicine and …, 2004 - Elsevier
In vivo transfer of the herpes simplex virus type-1 thymidine kinase (HSV-1 TK) gene, with
subsequent administration of antiviral drugs such as ganciclovir, has emerged as a promising …

Validation of FLT uptake as a measure of thymidine kinase-1 activity in A549 carcinoma cells

JS Rasey, JR Grierson, LW Wiens… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2002 - Soc Nuclear Med
… accuracy with which FLT uptake predicted the activity of cytosolic thymidine kinase-1 (TK 1
)… the cellular uptake as a percentage of radioactivity in the same volume of medium. Uptake

Cytofluorometric assay for the determination of thymidine uptake and phosphorylation in living cells

M Hengstschläuger, E Wawra - Cytometry: The Journal of the …, 1993 - Wiley Online Library
… The cellular uptake of thymidine and its phosphorylation are coupled; consequently, the …
accumulation of phosphorylated thymidine analogues reflects the activity of thymidine kinase (25…

Intracellular uptake of thymidine and antiherpetic drugs for thymidine kinase-deficient mutants of herpes simplex virus type 1

PK Bae, JH Kim, HS Kim, IK Chung, SG Paik, CK Lee - Antiviral research, 2006 - Elsevier
… The cellular uptake of thymidine was highly dependent on the viral TK (vTK) activity. The TK
+ strain showed the highest level of intracellular thymidine uptake, … showed little uptake. The …

[PDF][PDF] Monitoring gene therapy with herpes simplex virus thymidine kinase in hepatoma cells: uptake of specific substrates

U Haberkorn, A Altmann, I Morr, KW Knopf… - Journal of Nuclear …, 1997 - Soc Nuclear Med
… pathway enzymes (eg, ofhost thymidine kinase activity during repair of cell damage).
Therefore, it is unlikely that a quantita tion with a standardized uptake value is useful! for the deter …

The role of phosphorylation in the uptake of thymidine in mammalian cells

GS Schuster, JD Hare - In vitro, 1971 - Springer
Thymidine uptake into the acid-soluble fraction of several hamster cell lines differing in
levels of thymidine kinase was examined. Uptake is correlated directly with the level of this …

Thymidine uptake, thymidine incorporation, and thymidine kinase activity in marine bacterium isolates

WH Jeffrey, JH Paul - Applied and environmental microbiology, 1990 - Am Soc Microbiol
… Attempts to detect thymidine kinase genes in … thymidine kinase genes proved unsuccessful.
To determine if the inability to incorporate thymidine was due to the lack of thymidine kinase, …

Monitoring tumor cell proliferation by targeting DNA synthetic processes with thymidine and thymidine analogs

JL Schwartz, Y Tamura, R Jordan… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2003 - Soc Nuclear Med
… The initial step in TdR metabolism is phosphorylation by thymidine kinase-1 (TK 1 ). In …
To examine how some tumor-specific variations in cell biology influence PET tracer uptake, …

… and Cellular Uptake of 2'-Substituted Analogues of (E)-5-(2-[125I]Iodovinyl)-2'-deoxyuridine in Tumor Cells Transduced with the Herpes Simplex Type-1 Thymidine …

KW Morin, ED Atrazheva, EE Knaus… - Journal of medicinal …, 1997 - ACS Publications
cellular density (1 × 10 5 cells) in cell cultures of KBALB and KBALB-STK cells. The cellular
uptake of each compound (10−13) in both cell … Minimal uptake of all four compounds (10−13) …

Evaluation of human thymidine kinase 1 substrates as new candidates for boron neutron capture therapy

AS Al-Madhoun, J Johnsamuel, RF Barth, W Tjarks… - Cancer Research, 2004 - AACR
… Because the cellular uptake of sufficient amounts of 10 B is a prerequisite for a boron delivery
agent for neutron capture therapy, in vitro uptake and retention studies were performed as …