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ReviewWiley interdisciplinary reviews. Nanomedicine and nanobiotechnology

Gadolinium-based contrast agents for magnetic resonance cancer imaging.

Zhuxian Zhou, Zheng-Rong Lu

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Review in Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Nanomedicine and nanobiotechnology. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 128 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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128citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

128 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 410 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Zhuxian ZhouDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA.
Zheng-Rong Lu
Case Western Reserve University · US

Funding

Biodegradable Macromolecular Blood Pool Contrast AgentsR01EB000489 · NIBIB · UNIVERSITY OF UTAH · PI LU, ZHENG-RONG · 2003 to 2014
$3.3M
Polymer chelate conjugates for Diagnostic cancer imagingR01CA097465 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF UTAH · PI LU, ZHENG-RONG · 2004 to 2011
$2.3M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA097465NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB000489
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a clinical imaging modality effective for anatomical and functional imaging of diseased soft tissues, including solid tumors. MRI contrast agents (CA) have been routinely used for detecting tumor at an early stage. Gadolinium-based CA are the most commonly used CA in clinical MRI. There have been significant efforts to design and develop novel Gd(III) CA with high relaxivity, low toxicity, and specific tumor binding. The relaxivity of the Gd(III) CA can be increased by proper chemical modification. The toxicity of Gd(III) CA can be reduced by increasing the agents' thermodynamic and kinetic stability, as well as optimizing their pharmacokinetic properties. The increasing knowledge in the field of cancer genomics and biology provides an opportunity for designing tumor-specific CA. Various new Gd(III) chelates have been designed and evaluated in animal models for more effective cancer MRI. This review outlines the design and development, physicochemical properties, and in vivo properties of several classes of Gd(III)-based MR CA tumor imaging.

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AnimalsContrast MediaGadoliniumHumansMagnetic Resonance ImagingNeoplasmsContrast MediaGadolinium

Identifiers

PMID23047730
PMCPMC3552562
OpenAlexW2033116451

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