Vicki Plaks

Photodynamic therapy of established prostatic adenocarcinoma with TOOKAD: a biphasic apparent diffusion coefficient change as potential early MRI response marker.

Homologous adaptation to oxidative stress induced by the photosensitized Pd-bacteriochlorophyll derivative (WST11) in cultured endothelial cells.

WST11, a novel water-soluble bacteriochlorophyll derivative; cellular uptake, pharmacokinetics, biodistribution and vascular-targeted photodynamic activity using melanoma tumors as a model.

MRI analysis of angiogenesis during mouse embryo implantation.

Cloprostenol, a prostaglandin F(2alpha) analog, induces hypoxia in rat placenta: BOLD contrast MRI.

MRI detection of transcriptional regulation of gene expression in transgenic mice.

Oocyte-directed depletion of connexin43 using the Cre-LoxP system leads to subfertility in female mice.

Gap junctions in the ovary: expression, localization and function.

Uterine DCs are crucial for decidua formation during embryo implantation in mice.

Ferritin nanoparticles as magnetic resonance reporter gene.

Matrix metalloproteinases: regulators of the tumor microenvironment.

Bone vascularization and trabecular bone formation are mediated by PKB alpha/Akt1 in a gene-dosage-dependent manner: in vivo and ex vivo MRI.

Functional phenotyping of the maternal albumin turnover in the mouse placenta by dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI.

Survival and size are differentially regulated by placental and fetal PKBalpha/AKT1 in mice.

A role for Notch signaling in trophoblast endovascular invasion and in the pathogenesis of pre-eclampsia.

Imaging tumor-stroma interactions during chemotherapy reveals contributions of the microenvironment to resistance.

Lgr5-expressing cells are sufficient and necessary for postnatal mammary gland organogenesis.

Matrix metalloproteinase-9 deficiency phenocopies features of preeclampsia and intrauterine growth restriction.

Cancer. Circulating tumor cells.

Blastocyst implantation failure relates to impaired translational machinery gene expression.

The cancer stem cell niche: how essential is the niche in regulating stemness of tumor cells?

Adaptive Immune Regulation of Mammary Postnatal Organogenesis.