Olympus FV1000 In Vivo Confocal Microscope Publications

        1. Liu, F., Uchugonova, A., Kimura, H., Zhang, C., Zhao, M., Zhang, L., Koenig, K., Duong, J., Aki, R., Saito, N., Mii, S., Amoh, Y., Katsuoka, K., and Hoffman, R.M. The bulge area is the major hair follicle source of nestin-expressing pluripotent stem cells which can repair the spinal cord compared to the dermal papilla. Cell Cycle 10, 830-839, 2011.

        2. Uchugonova, A., Duong, J., Zhang, N., König, K., and Hoffman, R.M. The bulge area is the origin of nestin-expressing pluripotent stem cells of the hair follicle. J. Cell. Biochem. 112, 2046-2050, 2011. DOI: 10.1002/jcb.23122.

        3. Duong, J., Mii, S., Uchugonova, A., Liu, F., Moossa, A.R., and Hoffman, R.M. Real-time confocal imaging of trafficking of nestin-expressing multipotent stem cells in mouse whiskers in long-term 3-D histoculture. In Vitro Cell. Dev. Biol. Anim. 48, 301-305, 2012.

        4. Uchugonova, A., Zhao, M., Zhang, Y., Weinigel, M., König, K., and Hoffman, R.M. Cancer-cell killing by engineered Salmonella imaged by multiphoton tomography in live mice. Anticancer Research 32, 4331-4338, 2012.

       5. Suetsugu, A., Hassanein, M.K., Reynoso, J., Osawa, Y., Nagaki, M., Moriwaki, H., Saji, S., Bouvet, M., and Hoffman, R.M. The cyan fluorescent protein nude mouse as a host for multicolor-coded imaging models of primary and metastatic tumor microenvironments. Anticancer Res. 32, 31-38, 2012.       

       6. Suetsugu, A., Katz, M., Fleming, J., Truty, M., Thomas, R., Saji, S., Moriwaki, H., Bouvet, M., and Hoffman, R.M. Imageable fluorescent metastasis resulting in transgenic GFP mice orthotopically implanted with human-patient primary pancreatic cancer specimens. Anticancer Research 32, 1175-1180, 2012.       

        7. Suetsugu, A., Katz, M., Fleming, J., Truty, M., Thomas, R., Moriwaki, H., Bouvet, M., Saji, S., and Hoffman, R.M. Multi-color palette of fluorescent proteins for imaging the tumor microenvironment of orthotopic tumorgraft mouse models of clinical pancreatic cancer specimens. J. Cell. Biochem. 113, 2290-2295, 2012.
8. Hu, M., Zhao, M., An, C., Yang, M., Li, Q., Zhang, Y., Suetsugu, A., Tome, Y., Yano, S., Fu, Y., Hoffman, R.M., and Hu, K. Real-time imaging of apoptosis induction of human breast cancer cells by the traditional Chinese medicinal herb Tubeimu. Anticancer Res. 32, 2509-2514, 2012.
9. Suetsugu, A., Katz, M., Fleming, J., Truty, M., Thomas, R., Saji, S., Moriwaki, H., Bouvet, M., and Hoffman, R.M. Non-invasive fluorescent-protein imaging of orthotopic pancreatic-cancer-patient tumorgraft progression in nude mice. Anticancer Research 32, 3063-3068, 2012.
10. Momiyama, M., Suetsugu, A., Kimura, H., Kishimoto, H., Aki, R., Yamada, A., Sakurada, H., Chishima, T., Bouvet, M., Bulgakova, N.N., Endo, I., and Hoffman, R.M. Fluorescent proteins enhance UVC PDT of cancer cells. Anticancer Research 32, 4327-4330, 2012.
11. Momiyama, M., Suetsugu, A., Kimura, H., Kishimoto, H., Aki, R., Yamada, A., Sakurada, H., Chishima, T., Bouvet, M., Endo, I., and Hoffman, R.M. Imaging the efficacy of UVC irradiation on superficial brain tumors and metastasis in live mice at the subcellular level. J. Cell. Biochem. 114, 428-434, 2013.
12. Miwa, S., Tome, Y., Yano, S., Hiroshima, Y., Uehara, F., Mii, S., Kimura, H., Hayashi, K., Tsuchiya, H., Bouvet, M., Efimova, E.V., and Hoffman, R.M. Single cell time-lapse imaging of focus formation by the DNA damage-response protein 53BP1 after UVC irradiation of human pancreatic cancer cells. Anticancer Res. 33, 1373-1378, 2013.
13. Momiyama, M., Suetsugu, A., Kimura, H., Chishima, T., Bouvet, M., Endo, I., and Hoffman, R.M. Dynamic subcellular imaging of cancer cell mitosis in the brain of live mice. Anticancer Res. 33, 1367-1371, 2013.
14. Uehara, F., Tome, Y., Yano, S., Miwa, S., Mii, S., Hiroshima, Y., Bouvet, M., Maehara, H., Kanaya, F., and Hoffman, R.M. A color-coded imaging model of the interaction of αv integrin-GFP expressed in osteosarcoma cells and RFP expressing blood vessels in Gelfoam® vascularized in vivo. Anticancer Res. 33, 1361-1366, 2013.
15. Uehara, F., Tome, Y., Reynoso, J., Mii, S., Yano, S., Miwa, S., Bouvet, M., Maehara, H., Kanaya, F., Moossa, A.R., and Hoffman, R.M. Color-coded imaging of spontaneous vessel anastomosis in vivo. Anticancer Research 33, 3041-3045.        16. Tome, Y., Sugimoto, N., Yano, S., Momiyama, M., Mii, S., Maehara, H., Bouvet, M., Tsuchiya, H., Kanaya, F., and Hoffman, R.M. Real-time imaging of αv integrin molecular dynamics in osteosarcoma cells in vitro and in vivo. Anticancer Research 33, 3021-3025.