Abstract:
An imaging contrast medium comprising a physiologically tolerable multinuclear complex (as defined in claim 1) is disclosed. The multinuclear complex contains at least two, but preferably three or more contrast enhancing atoms. For X-ray or ultrasound imaging techniques heavy metal atoms are used to enhance contrast, whereas in Magnetic Resonance Imaging paramagnetic metal atoms are contrast enhancing. Molybdenum and tungsten are preferred contrast enhancing atoms. The medium may also be used therapeutically.
Abstract:
The invention relates to the use as contrast enhancing agents in medical imaging, especially X-ray imaging, of multinuclear complexes, i.e. complexes, such as those of W2O2( mu 2O)2, in which the complexed entity comprises at least two contrast enhancing atoms.
Abstract translation:本发明涉及作为多核复合物的医学成像,特别是X射线成像中的对比增强剂的用途,例如复合物,例如W 2 O 2(mu 2 O)2的那些,其中复合实体包含至少两个对比度增强原子 。
Abstract:
A method of formulating or concentrating a radiolabeled molecule or compound includes providing a microfluidic device having a sample layer containing a microfluidic channel formed therein, a porous membrane having a pore size of less than 0.5 µm disposed on the sample layer and covering the microfluidic channel, and a gas flow layer having a gas-carrying channel formed therein, wherein the porous membrane is interposed between the sample layer and the gas flow layer. A fluid containing the radiolabeled molecule or compound is delivered into the microfluidic channel. Heat is applied to evaporate the fluid. A gas is passed through gas-carrying channel to remove evaporated fluid from the microfluidic device.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to combinations of at least two components, component A and component B, component A being an immune checkpoint inhibitor, and component B being a pharmaceutically acceptable salt of the alkaline-earth radionuclide radium-223, the combination being useful for the treatment or prophylaxis of cancer.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a particle or pharmaceutical composition comprising one, more particles or a suspension of same or different particles comprising a degradable compound and an alpha emitting radionuclide and/or a radionuclide generating alpha emitting daughter. A particle comprising CaCO 3 , the alpha emitting radionuclide 224 Ra, and a 224 Ra radionuclide progeny is in particular disclosed. The particles are beneficial for use in the treatment of cancer.
Abstract:
The invention is related to peptide constructs, i.e., polypeptides obtained by linking together two or more peptides based on or derived from different molecules, which are useful in the treatment or prevention of cancer or the treatment of autoimmune diseases and compositions containing same, methods for producing same, and methods for using same; wherein the peptide constructs have the formula Pi-x-P2 where P2 is a peptide associated with forms of cancer or an autoimmune condition and Pi is a peptide which will bind to a class of immune cells such as dendritic cells. The peptide construct can cause the maturation of immature dendritic cells to a more mature state. The peptide construct or the more mature dendritic cells can be administered to a subject to modulate or to initiate an immune response against cancer cells, and can be used with dyes, radioisotopes, or therapeutic agents for detection of the immune target and/or treatment of cancer and autoimmune conditions.
Abstract:
The invention provides a method of treating a tumor or other lesion comprising introducing a solution comprising one or more radioactive isotopes directly into said tumour or other lesion in a mammal to effect in situ precipitation of a radioactive precipitate in the tumour or other lesion.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a Prussian Blue based nanoparticle comprising a Prussian Blue based metal core doped with one or more metal isotope and an organic biocompatible coating. The invention relates furthermore to a process for the preparation of said nanoparticle, and the use thereof as imaging contrast material or in the therapy.?
Abstract:
Disclosed are Na+/I- symporter (NIS) mutant proteins wherein glycine residue 93 is replaced with aspartic acid or glutamic acid, a method of preparing said mutant NIS protein, a transfection vector for a NIS mutant protein, and a pharmaceutical composition comprising said mutant NIS protein in a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. The disclosure also provides a method of treating cancer or cancerous cells, comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of a transfection vector for a NIS mutant protein or a pharmaceutical composition thereof, and administering a therapeutically effective amount of radioisotope. The disclosure further provides a method of imaging cells, comprising administering to the cells an effective amount of a transfection vector for a NIS mutant protein, administering a effective amount of imaging label, and imaging the cells.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to an optical imaging contrast agent, the use and a device thereof. The optical imaging contrast agent of the present invention does not need to comprise a separate fluorescent material or luminescent material to emit light, and can thus acquire an optical image without changing the physicochemical properties of an original molecule. The optical imaging contrast agent of the present invention can be used as an optical/nuclear medical dual imaging contrast agent in many cases, and enables the effects of treatment to be monitored from optical images concurrently with radiotherapy. In addition, when linked with a fluorescent material, the optical imaging contrast agent of the present invention can emit light from the fluorescent material with energy independently generated from the optical contrast agent without being supplied with energy from outside, and thus allows the amount of light to be increased and the tissue permeability to be enhanced.