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Appl Radiat Isot
; 69(7): 955-9, 2011 Jul.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-21459007
ABSTRACT
Radiopharmaceuticals are useful to evaluate effectiveness of cancer treatments as well as diagnosis of diseases. (99m)Tc-Glucoheptonate has high sensitivity for imaging lung cancer tissues. In this study, the potential use of (99m)Tc-glucoheptonate for monitoring apoptosis related to chemotherapeutic agents is investigated in vitro using A549 lung cancer cell line. A decrease in (99m)Tc-glucoheptonate uptake ratio was observed depending on the level of apoptosis. (99m)Tc-glucoheptonate is found to be useful for the detection of apoptosis following treatment in A549 lung tumor cells.