1. Evaluation of 99mTc-amoxicillin sodium as an infection imaging agent in bacterially infected and sterile inflamed rats
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Hayal Ozkilic, Mine Hosgor-Limoncu, Oya Caglayan-Orumlu, Makbule Asikoglu, Derya Ilem-Ozdemir, and Ferda Yilmaz
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Sterility ,business.industry ,Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis ,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health ,Pharmacology ,010403 inorganic & nuclear chemistry ,01 natural sciences ,Pollution ,030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging ,0104 chemical sciences ,Analytical Chemistry ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Nuclear Energy and Engineering ,Gamma scintigraphy ,Inflammation imaging ,In vivo biodistribution ,Medicine ,Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging ,Infection imaging ,business ,Amoxicillin Sodium ,Spectroscopy - Abstract
Bacterial infection is one of the major causes of morbidity and mortality especially in developing countries. The aim of this study was to develop a new radiopharmaceutical for imaging infection. The labeling conditions were optimized, and lyophilized kits were developed for instant preparing. The stability of 99mTc-AMOX in human serum was identified, sterility and pyrogenicity of the radiopharmaceutical were estimated, gamma scintigraphy and in vivo biodistribution with infected rats were investigated. The promising properties of 99mTc-AMOX combined with the development of reliable and instant lyophilized kit afford the opportunity of inflammatory process imaging.
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- 2015
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