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ReviewCancers2021

In Vivo Targeting of CXCR4-New Horizons.

Margret Schottelius, Ken Herrmann, Constantin Lapa

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In one paragraph

Review in Cancers, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
26citing papers in PubMed
3.0field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
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

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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

26 citing papers in PubMed, 44 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Imaging the hallmarks of cancer.Nature reviews. Cancer · 2026
    Review
  2. Is CXCR4 Theranostics in Oncologic, Cardiovascular, and Inflammatory Diseases Really Happening?Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine · 2026
    Article
  3. Development of an Optimized CXCR4-Targeting Theranostic Pair.Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine · 2026
    Article
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  5. Future of radiotheranostics.BMJ oncology · 2026
    Review
  6. Potential role ofAsia Oceania journal of nuclear medicine & biology · 2026
    Article
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  9. Peptide-Based Biomaterials as a Promising Tool for Cancer Radiotherapy.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
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  14. [European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging · 2023
    Article
  15. CXC chemokine receptor 4 (CXCR4) blockade in cancer treatment.Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology · 2023
    Review
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  20. A dataset of [Data in brief · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Margret SchotteliusTranslational Radiopharmaceutical Sciences, Department of Nuclear Medicine and of Oncology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), University of Lausanne (UNIL), 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-1928-6913
Ken HerrmannDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, German Cancer Consortium (DKTK)-University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, 45147 Essen, Germany.
Constantin LapaNuclear Medicine, Medical Faculty, University of Augsburg, 86156 Augsburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-7536-2207
University Hospital of Lausanne · CHUniversity of Augsburg · DEUniversity of Duisburg-Essen · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Given its pre-eminent role in the context of tumor cell growth as well as metastasis, the C-X-C motif chemokine receptor 4 (CXCR4) has attracted a lot of interest in the field of nuclear oncology, and clinical evidence on the high potential of CXCR4-targeted theranostics is constantly accumulating. Additionally, since CXCR4 also represents a key player in the orchestration of inflammatory responses to inflammatory stimuli, based on its expression on a variety of pro- and anti-inflammatory immune cells (e.g., macrophages and T-cells), CXCR4-targeted inflammation imaging has recently gained considerable attention. Therefore, after briefly summarizing the current clinical status quo of CXCR4-targeted theranostics in cancer, this review primarily focuses on imaging of a broad spectrum of inflammatory diseases via the quantification of tissue infiltration with CXCR4-expressing immune cells. An up-to-date overview of the ongoing preclinical and clinical efforts to visualize inflammation and its resolution over time is provided, and the predictive value of the CXCR4-associated imaging signal for disease outcome is discussed. Since the sensitivity and specificity of CXCR4-targeted immune cell imaging greatly relies on the availability of suitable, tailored imaging probes, recent developments in the field of CXCR4-targeted imaging agents for various applications are also addressed.

Indexed as

cancerCXCR4inflammationmolecular imagingPETradioligand therapySPECT

Identifiers

PMID34885030
PMCPMC8656854
OpenAlexW3217447268

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