Cancer
Research on cancer detailed by Y. Chen and co-authors
Published in Cancer Weekly, October 16th, 2007
According to recent research published in the journal Cancer Biotherapy and Radiopharmaceuticals, "Glucosamine is a highly attractive scaffold for a glucosyl ligand, and shows activity with glucose transporters and hexokinase. In the study reported here, diethylenetriamine-pentaacetic acid-D-glucosamine (DTPA-DG) was synthesized by conjugating D-glucosamine to DTPA, and was labeled with technetitun-99m (Tc-99m)."
"We investigated Tc-99m-DTPA-DG for tumor detection. The biodistribution and imaging of Tc-99m-DTPA-DG in mammary tumor-bearing mice were compared to those in a control group of mice with oleum terebinthinae (turpentine oil)-induced inflammation. Both...
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