Noninvasive visualization of the activated alphavbeta3 integrin in cancer patients by positron emission tomography and [18F]Galacto-RGD.
BACKGROUND: The integrin alphavbeta3 plays an important role in angiogenesis and tumor cell metastasis, and is currently being evaluated as a target for new therapeutic approaches. Several techniques are being studied to enable noninvasive determination of alphavbeta3 expression. We developed [(18)F...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2005-03-01
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Series: | PLoS Medicine |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC1069665?pdf=render |