leky-latky/jod/transport-jodu
NIS
- Non-regulated iodide accumulation, without organification
- In the lactating mammary gland
- Salivary
- Parotid glands
- Gastric mucosa
- Small intestine
- Choroid plexus
- Ciliary body of the eye
- NIS is expressed in other tissues
- In the lung, where oxidation of iodide improves anti-viral defenses
- Endogenous NIS expression occurs in breast cancer and cholangiocarcinoma
- Exploring the use of 131I- to treat these types of cancers
- NIS transports perrhenate defines 188ReO4-
- A candidate to increase radiation dose delivery to these tumors
- Transduction of viral vectors containing the cDNA of NIS under the control of heterologous promoters
- PSA promoter