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ReviewDrug design, development and therapy2018

Copper-64: a real theranostic agent.

Bianca Gutfilen, Sergio Al Souza, Gianluca Valentini

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Review in Drug design, development and therapy, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

38 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Bianca GutfilenDepartment of Radiology, School of Medicine, Laboratório de Marcação de Células e Moléculas (LMCM), Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, bianca.gutfilen@gmail.com.
Sergio Al SouzaDepartment of Radiology, School of Medicine, Laboratório de Marcação de Células e Moléculas (LMCM), Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, bianca.gutfilen@gmail.com.
Gianluca ValentiniAdvanced Center Oncology Macerata (ACOM), Montecosaro, Italy.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ongoing studies of physiological and pathological processes have led to a corresponding need for new radiopharmaceuticals, especially when studies are limited by the absence of a particular radiolabeled target. Thus, the development of new radioactive tracers is highly relevant and can represent a significant contribution to efforts to elucidate important phenomena in biology. Currently, theranostics represents a new frontier in the fields of medicine and nuclear medicine, with the same compound being used for both diagnosis and treatment. In the human body, copper (Cu) is the third most abundant metal and it plays a crucial role in many biological functions. Correspondingly, in various acquired and inherited pathological conditions, such as cancer and Alzheimer's disease, alterations in Cu levels have been found. Moreover, a wide spectrum of neurodegenerative disorders are associated with higher or lower levels of Cu, as well as inappropriately bound or distributed levels of Cu in the brain. In human cells, the membrane protein, hCtr1, binds Cu in its Cu(I) oxidation state in an energy-dependent manner. Copper-64 (

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Theranostic NanomedicineAlzheimer DiseaseAnimalsCopper RadioisotopesHumansNeoplasmsRadiopharmaceuticalsCopper-64Copper RadioisotopesRadiopharmaceuticalscancerCopper-64PETradiopharmaceuticaltheranostic

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PMID30323557
PMCPMC6173185

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